>If he's going for that much verbosity, I'm inclined to suspect that he's
>still trying to push people's buttons.

As was said elsewhere about Emma Frost (before she (sort of) reformed), Akio finds people's buttons and plays Bach on them because it's fun. I don't think we need to look any deeper than that for the letter. His actual plot on the other hand... I think he's about to discover he just stepped on a perfectly ordinary-looking patch of ground, and something went <click>...

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