It's impressive.

[ He says, as he flips to the next page. Learning from reading, rather than formal schooling. Granted, her circumstances had dictated it a huge priority, but it's still an admirable thing. ]

That's the other way they get you. [ His tone isn't unkind. Actually it's inching towards sympathetic, softer than usual. It's so close to what happened with him and Jordie, with Rollins taking advantage of two young boys who didn't know any better. At the very least, they'd had fluency in Kerch—though that hadn't done them any favors.

It makes Inej's situation much more angering, though.

There's silence for a few minutes as he flips through more pages, parsing the dense text solely because he's read enough law jargon over the past decade. At this point, he could probably take the bar and pass. Halfway through a page, he stops, pointing out a section. ]

Here, this is about the debt accrual. [ He folds over the read pages, setting the stack on the arm of the chair and turning it towards her. ] It's made to sound like you'll be able to work off what's owed, but you won't. The interest on it outweighs how much you pay back.

[ Dirty. And predatory. He hates it. ]