ami now that you've unvoted i assume your game is up with trying to come up with a scum read on jex?
all of this screams baiting for a slip to me.
this isn't very evident at all, and in fact if this was the case i'm sure the grilling would have seized long before it ended. timid newbies slip and stumble all the time, and instead of trying to read him, all i saw was manipulation. you didn't
progress anything, and nothing in his play inherently changed by the time you stepped down. it's as if you couldn't get what you wanted to out of the interaction so you just... stopped it.
i repeat
vote ami
jex if youre down to sheep id say you should hop on over here