So he truly did come from a world more similar to Exsilium than her own. He'd mentioned it briefly before, nothing in exact details, and she didn't want to pry. Now it seemed like she would be asking a few questions of her own into his past. "I wouldn't want my family here, either." True answers, both of them safe, and hardly indulgent. "Do you have enemies too?" It was a concession on her part, a desire to know the truth if she granted him some leeway of her own.

She shrugged. "If someone else is organizing it, I will want to help. But if we're going to have a defense, they need to be organized and ready. We need to be prepared. As much as I want to be easy and lenient on them, they have specific goals in mind...as do I."