Holy shit anon this is G R E A T. God, I love the tense ambiguity laced through all of this, the fencing for position and the feeling out of each other's political motives. THAT DIRTY TALK, HOLY SHIT, INCREDIBLE. DELICIOUS. And ugh, I love the ambiguity of how Caleb feels about this encounter, the way that he's willing to give himself over for the sake of his goals (and the implication that he's done so before in even less savoury circumstances, oh man).