"And yet you make the inquiry," comes his dry reply. Too many; that echoes in his thoughts, an eternal refrain. "Trust that I would. As Alderwood Commander, it is I that will mobilise the Foreigners once the scope of the threat is known. It is no easier on me than it is you to be kept in the dark and not know which of you will be needed when and where."

Evandau lets it go after that, stepping from that frustration which hounds him to a request more easily addressed in the scope of his duties as proxy. "That depends on what you seek and how many years to your future it resides in."