“I’m starting to think people just assume I’m the best choice for anything,” P’rihnn grouses, even though he’s never been one to turn down people in need. “Surprised he didn’t ask you to go fetch him some sandwiches or something. Did you get any other impression off him?”

He has a feeling he would have been too angry to really think much about what the Exarch had to say, and reading between the lines was never a strong point of his.

“The only reason we have to help him is because, I suppose, we’re not meant to be helping him.”