[Trying out new scenarios, exposing yourself to new people and visa versa... no one can say you didn't try right? Networking is not exactly one of Matt's strong suits. He is not social by nature. People mean more stimulation.

Like. This guy. Jeez. Cigarettes of a brand he's never smelled before. Soap. Musk of an undetermined kind. Matt steels himself as he has so many times and pushes down his natural revulsion to smoking because smell and taste are so closely connected.]

Perception and motive colors everyone's version of the truth. Is it really a lie when someone believes it with no frame of reference otherwise?

[He smiles a little. And tilts his head. Matt wears his red framed shades in public and his cane is folded up on the table.]

Spoken like someone who knows a thing or two about the system.