So I have noticed. [So history has noted, too.] It's a good talent to have.
...Honestly, it's unreasonable to think we could get out of all that without doing so, but they ought to take their complaints to the Boss for causing all that ruckus in the first place, if I may be frank. [Matoba sips at his tea with a shake of his head.] The kappa clan have lost far more than their feathers have been so much as ruffled, and all the kappa I spoke to seem thrilled about the outcome of your negotiations.
Let their pride hurt, then.
[And anyway, he can understand what he means, by forcing the other clans to have a stake. It was sort of luring them in, in a way, so that they couldn't cut and run the next time something went wrong in the Underground.]
...Whatever is down there. [His voice softens, watching the drifting sediment in his cup.] You don't really think they've given up on it, do you?
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...Honestly, it's unreasonable to think we could get out of all that without doing so, but they ought to take their complaints to the Boss for causing all that ruckus in the first place, if I may be frank. [Matoba sips at his tea with a shake of his head.] The kappa clan have lost far more than their feathers have been so much as ruffled, and all the kappa I spoke to seem thrilled about the outcome of your negotiations.
Let their pride hurt, then.
[And anyway, he can understand what he means, by forcing the other clans to have a stake. It was sort of luring them in, in a way, so that they couldn't cut and run the next time something went wrong in the Underground.]
...Whatever is down there. [His voice softens, watching the drifting sediment in his cup.] You don't really think they've given up on it, do you?