[Kunsel tilts his head, then offers Terra a shrug.]
Does it cost me anything to be helpful? If not, why not? It's something I'm interested in anyway.
[Technically, though, it is costing him something, if time is considered a commodity. Even if he wouldn't necessarily be doing something else instead, it could still be considered something he's spending without getting anything in return, and that's enough to make some people suspicious.
So.]
If you really want to look at it cynically, me helping you could end up helping me, too. I like making contacts. I like hearing things from them. You never know when you might hear something useful that way that you wouldn't have found out otherwise.
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Does it cost me anything to be helpful? If not, why not? It's something I'm interested in anyway.
[Technically, though, it is costing him something, if time is considered a commodity. Even if he wouldn't necessarily be doing something else instead, it could still be considered something he's spending without getting anything in return, and that's enough to make some people suspicious.
So.]
If you really want to look at it cynically, me helping you could end up helping me, too. I like making contacts. I like hearing things from them. You never know when you might hear something useful that way that you wouldn't have found out otherwise.