[ Midnight sucks in a breath, then shrugs, grinning. ]

It's freedom enough. True freedom takes quite a bit of work to maintain, a reputation, power, no small amount of charisma to obtain one's wants and desires from others... What we have here, now, today? It's good. I'm free enough to talk to others. To people like you. What more could I ask for?

[ Well. He'd like to see his friends at home... But that certainly can wait, can't it? He isn't the sort to live in the past. ]