[ That earns Gene a huff, eyes dipping and chin ducking a little like he's been caught. It's a little different, though - he's not so much trying to hide anything particular. He'd just been curious, and when it comes to his stuff? ]

Where the hell do I even start?

[ He muses, tone laced heavy with history. A whole lifetime of it, and in such a vast array of quantities that I see dead people isn't the neat and tidy explanation he'd love to offer. ]

Uhh--

[ A hand comes up to coast along the back of his neck, up the short bristled hair they'd cropped however many months ago that's just about hitting the length he normally keeps it.

Opts to just go for the job title, because it's an easier catch-all. ]

I'm a hunter. When ghosts go bad- hell, when anything goes bad, starts hurting people, I'm the guy that finds 'em and puts them down.

[ How Gene wants to interpret anything is wide open, because whatever he's thinking of is probably on his list.

Which is a decent segue into what the question actually was. ]

Usually in my line of work... if something's offering you power there's an ulterior motive. It costs something, or it wants something, or it just... flat-out goes bad.