"I can't say I've heard of them." He sighs. "But I can't entirely rule out the possibility either. I'm from a small town in the steppe, out in the middle of nowhere, we weren't exactly getting in regular shipments of books outside of Russia, you see. However, Dankovsky, being the Capital dandy he is and all, may have had access to a wider variety of reading materials."

He rubs his forehead with his forefinger and thumb in annoyance at the situation.

"It doesn't excuse his behavior, mind you, calling you some sort of madman and fighting you over it is not acceptable- He does tend to become disagreeable over which he finds impossible, though just because he finds them to be so does not mean he is always correct." More often than not, Dankovsky's insistence of relying on rationality seems to get him in trouble, rather than accepting that others may have different viewpoints.