Optimisim has nothing to do with it. It's trust. He's cynical, too, of strangers and the world at large. He's seen the darkest parts of some men. Enveloped himself in that role. Life taker, blade man- he's killed scum of the earth for scum of the earth.

Goodnight, however, was faith restored.

"Blue sounds dangerous. The truth without filter." One a man of privacy such as himself would hate to take. Perhaps he should be careful in the next few months or so that no one laces his drink with such a thing...