Whatever Ves expected to encounter during his first personal meeting with the Web Mistress, he never imagined it would start off in this manner.
The subtle Star Designer threw him off-guard and did not follow any of the scripts that he had envisioned in the past few days.
Ves prided himself on his steadily improving ability to predict how people behaved and how events might unfold, but incidents like this brutally reminded him that reality had no obligation to follow his arrangements.
The fact that the Web Mistress acted completely different from his mental models of her caused him to remain mentally unbalanced.
He had a hard time calming down and faced the Web Mistress with a less emotionally charged mindset.
This was detrimental to his goals. If he wanted to gain the greatest amount of help from the woman, then he needed to get his act together and regain his old poise.
