He meant to be up to just the sort of thing that plays to his natural talents - verbal fencing with miscellaneous authority figures, the Cetagandans trying to extract the day's prizes from him while he in turn tries to extract from them whatever information he can get them to deliberately or inadvertently divulge, on this or other topics. He considers it hardly his fault that the Cetagandans are inexplicably failing to come after him in the first place.
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He meant to be up to just the sort of thing that plays to his natural talents - verbal fencing with miscellaneous authority figures, the Cetagandans trying to extract the day's prizes from him while he in turn tries to extract from them whatever information he can get them to deliberately or inadvertently divulge, on this or other topics. He considers it hardly his fault that the Cetagandans are inexplicably failing to come after him in the first place.