“And I thought this world had difficult politics,” Kain comments, shaking his head. He can’t imagine what that might be like, suddenly discovering that magic is real after never experiencing it. He’s always taken it for granted as something that just exists. “At least it sounds like you have plenty of safeguards and the means to keep yourselves isolated.”

They are. They’re all in this together, she’s right. As they had been together back home, against Zemus and his various threats. As they also had been together as Cosmos Warriors against Chaos. He’s had to learn that, and be reminded of it often, but it’s true. He always tends to isolate when things get bad, but he really can’t afford to if it comes to something involving mind control. “Right. No matter what may happen, that’s true. No matter our beliefs or backgrounds…” -and the Inquisition has such a wide variety of those- “...we’re all together in this. I’ll try to remember that. I’ll admit, it’s difficult sometimes to rely on others… I don’t want to burden anyone… but in this case, there’s probably no choice…”