"We don't know who these people are, or what they stand for, or what they might want from us beyond closing the rifts."
He always has been the glass-half-empty sort, but his objections ring hollow in his own ears. To maintain his principles in the face of resistance from his own people is one thing, but...what does it matter here? Wherever he is, it's nowhere he's ever heard of. He ought simply to observe without committing to anything, remain independent, but if that isn't an option...
"What did you do, before this...rift fiasco?" he asks her. Only to Diwaniya would it seem more important to inquire after her job description before he actually asks, you know, her name.
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He always has been the glass-half-empty sort, but his objections ring hollow in his own ears. To maintain his principles in the face of resistance from his own people is one thing, but...what does it matter here? Wherever he is, it's nowhere he's ever heard of. He ought simply to observe without committing to anything, remain independent, but if that isn't an option...
"What did you do, before this...rift fiasco?" he asks her. Only to Diwaniya would it seem more important to inquire after her job description before he actually asks, you know, her name.