[Gregor is so damnably hard to read without that insight, even for someone that knows him well-- even now he's been blank-faced and composed throughout the whole conversation.]

A variation on the truth might be best. Mutual fascination as you are a clone of one of my contemporaries? I haven't been pretending I'm not Vor, just not the Vor.

Although if we go with that, we'll have to straighten out our stories on, well, you.