And if it's true we're being lied to, we need to have at least a somewhat unified front, or all this infighting amongst the Shardbearers is going to come back to bite us later.

[Claude lowers his voice, spotting a few soldiers on break conversing nearby. He looks back at Yuri.]

Not everyone is on board with efforts at diplomacy, but so far buy-in seems high enough that it should work for a while. Cyrus and Yima gave me their blessing too, so -- whatever happens from here, happens.

[It's an experiment, one he wants to try before he writes it off as a hopeless cause.]