[Ianto glances aside at the other man and offers him the quirk of a smile. He appreciates that he is taking him seriously in this. Some of the others wouldn't, blindly following along with one or the other -- the Natha because they have all of their loved ones effectively hostage perhaps, or Magda because the Natha have hardly given them a reason to trust them otherwise.]

I'm hoping to get information from him. But it would seem that the only way to do so would be to win him over. So here I am, I suppose. A rather roundabout way to do research, but then again, I've had worse.