[MAYBE IT WILL HELP HER HELP THEM, IF SHE'S THE ONE HELPING THEM? MAYBE SHE CAN USE IT TO PROTECT HERSELF? MAYBE IT BEEPS OR PLAYS MUSIC OR SOMETHING? He doesn't want the Professor to see it, whatever it is. Only two people Therion has spoken with here have power of any kind in this underwater grave, and he doubts trying to strike up a rapport with the Professor is going to do him any good.

After his bathroom conversation with Birkin, he's not sure he wants to get too close with Angel, either. But he's a thief and a jailbird. He can't not try every avenue available to him. He just has to be careful.

He's so bad at being careful, when he sees something of his life in others.]

Hmm.

[He... genuinely appears to be thinking this over.]

Professor likes a challenge, doesn't he? Sure that applies to us, too. Someone asks for something, maybe give them the materials to make it, but they have to build it themselves. Doesn't seem like he minds that kind of thing, given the wing that's just opened.