[ he's been working in quite the detailed framework of assumptions - based in some logic from his pre-existing familiarity with the game, presumably. Messmer still poorly understands the ever-present "audience" when he can see no one but the staff of the game; he's been told the devices they use are transmitting their goings-on somehow, but how, and to whom, remain beyond him. Rom's guess seems as sound (or unsound) as anyone else's.

The comment about Verso being too good for either of them draws a pensive breath from Messmer. ]

Aye. And so, too, beyond its frame.

[ there's more to Verso than just the charm - a lot more - but he nonetheless still feels that Verso's a much better person than him by any reasonable metric. ]

Yet thou spoke not of this to me. Thou wouldst constrain me by plans to which I was not privy. Beyond this, my choice did naught but bolster thy theory regardless. These matches are purely tests of our ideas.