The network thread went kind of an unexpected direction (in a very good way) and we've got the tournament thread going which I suspect may ease tensions. A little. Slightly. Maybe. He's done a lot of the Creeper around her but at this stage is also attempting to convey he's not really much of the same threat he was before, because a) sucking up for any potential connections and b) he holds a legitimate interest in her as a magus and what she can do. c) twintails

Also, obligatory check-in regarding the slyphs stuff goes here if anything's changed. Feel free to catch me up to speed on where that's at if needed.

Actually I think an emotional sort of blow-up would be neat to thread out around the end of the timeskip. Gil will be in a good enough mood to not react aggressively and he may actually be a little more forthcoming about daddy during this time. Of course "emotional blow-up" can mean any number of things so I'm flexible on that.