Nonsense. What absurdity. [What a terrible counter argument. She scoffs.]
Even if we had gone off to do just that, the work of investigating rifts and their associated arcana requires— You went to the Arlathans, yes? Do you imagine myself and Viktor and Miss Smythe just traipsing along through the jungles on our own? To say nothing of the intent of the Venatori themselves. Clearly they understand Riftwatch and its purposes as a threat to their own. They meant to kill us in Rialto, and succeeded in part at Granitefell. If anything—
[She reaches for a word, and failing to find it instead stamps her foot. It makes for a dull thwack amidst the hissing of the rain beyond the covered walkway. It does the job required of it thought, for she continues:]
It is our duty to persist! If that is true, then they should be frightened!
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Even if we had gone off to do just that, the work of investigating rifts and their associated arcana requires— You went to the Arlathans, yes? Do you imagine myself and Viktor and Miss Smythe just traipsing along through the jungles on our own? To say nothing of the intent of the Venatori themselves. Clearly they understand Riftwatch and its purposes as a threat to their own. They meant to kill us in Rialto, and succeeded in part at Granitefell. If anything—
[She reaches for a word, and failing to find it instead stamps her foot. It makes for a dull thwack amidst the hissing of the rain beyond the covered walkway. It does the job required of it thought, for she continues:]
It is our duty to persist! If that is true, then they should be frightened!