[Alexei shakes his head briefly, forcing everything out as he usually does; it doesn't come with the large amount of self-loathing that this sort of thing usually does - discussing this with Schwann always feels like pointless whining, to be honest - so he supposes that's a good thing, at least.]

I intended to tell you eventually. I admittedly wasn't expecting getting into it today, but it's something I had considered that you should probably know.

Especially since I likely will have more jobs for you in future. It seems only fair, given both that and our current arrangement, to at least tell you why.