[There isn't much by way of reaction to the decent approval of his values; he isn't very emotionally attached to them, after all. Not in any human way, at least.

He doesn't seem to mind continuing to discuss the topic either, though. As far as curiosity and interrogations go, he's dealt with worse of both.]

We understand a similar freedom then, I think. [To be timeless, at least. Tethered is another matter, and after a second of consideration, he adds:] I hold such a thing close because I spent much of my existence without one of the two, and the other is always at risk.

[A little vague, maybe, but he's only just getting used to the concept that it's okay to share any of this at all.]

And for the matter of the factions... I do not know that either would admit to lacking in freedom of any sort, or that they could guarantee it, either.