[He's allowing his eyes to follow because he wants to know where he's going and see what other information he can pick up. He's not at all sorry about that assessment either, but he folds his arms over his chest and leans back in his chair.]

You remind me of somebody I knew back home. That same kind of belief that people will be good at the end of the day? It's exactly the same. [Annabeth and Adrien both have a tendency to want to trust people and believe in people. Even with everything Luke did at the end, it was Annabeth who still believed and who could still reach him. With her dagger here, he's thinking about a lot of things.] Pretty sure that kind of thing could be a game-changer.