[A reaction. Authority does things to people, either hardening them up or putting a fear. Here, it's brought tension, but the willingness to speak remains.]

Eshai knows more than I. What I know is enough to keep the peace and I don't pry further.

[Evandau's focus is the police force and keeping the peace in Keeliai, with a higher goal of defending against the threat that stalks them across the oceans and over the centuries. He gets a profile of each Foreigner, tombstone data mostly, that allows him to keep tabs on them and their abilities, but he has no care for their personal history unless they trespass against his laws.]

This distrust of yours, that interests me. Why suspect it? Tu Vishan has been seen by many Foreigners that could confirm what you could not trust from the kedan.