[ And what a vibe Silco gives off. As Dilu turned to him, to open toward Conversation, Silco kept his own body looking forward, toward the bar. Not quite closed off, but certainly not the open-to-conversation posing that would normally come in such a place. It's just good bar etiquette, and Silco doesn't give that off at all. Even though he started the conversation! Weird! However, he does tip his head toward Diluc, and give him the full effect of being under his eye. One blinked, and the other... certainly did not. His lips twitched, as if Diluc had said something funny, but there really wasn't much funny about the increasing tensions between the factions. ]

It's quite a bit, yes. If you're lucky, you'll find familiar faces to guide you toward the right choice.

[ Like Kaeya, he thinks, but Diluc had already been slotted into a different position. He suspected, based on nothing more than a moment of shared trauma with Kaeya -- a moment of forced memories of brotherly betrayal -- that Diluc would not choose Zenith, because...well. Just like he and Kaeya were discarded, there were the men that discarded them, and they were similar in kind. (They may actually not be, but Silco is not always a fully rational man in how he categorizes people.)

What is accurate, is that he sees Diluc as a threat. To what? Nothing, don't worry about it. ]

If not, well. You still get the opportunity to make a choice. Not many people are presented with that sort of option. You could consider yourself fortunate.