That's probably true. I tend to look for things I admire in the people I know. To him, he'd always been known as clever and a tactician. Smart. Certainly smarter than me.

[It's actually a pretty good deduction, even if Ashe has provided a bare bones version of what's happened.]

It might, but that's not the kind of person I'd want to be. Always distrusting of others and paranoid sounds unfulfilling. Besides, I can only imagine he'd have a worse opinion of me than he already does.