[Gideon snorts in dry amusement, reaches again for her drink.]

Did you tell it to get better lines? It sounds like a comic book villain talking like that.

[She knocks back another swig of ale, and thinks she kinda gets it. Easier, certainly, to bury one's head in the sand. A stupid move if annihilation if on the table, sure. But in her experience, those in power tend to make stupid decisions that she won't pretend to understand.]

Heavy shit.

[She concedes, eventually.]

So I guess you wanna get back to where you were? Finish what you started?

[Unlike her, who has nothing much to go back for. She and Harrow are here. Fuck all the rest.]