[Huaisang isn't sure how he gave Wolfe the idea that he has answers. Offering an apologetic grimace, he shrugs.] I don't know.
[His old familiar catchphrase is hardly comforting at this time. Wolfe's assessment seems right in the us-vs-them regard of the situation. There were confused people from a variety of worlds, and then there were the too-happy, extra-compliant locals. The only unhappiness Huaisang had seen any of the locals exhibit was from that guardsman, the one who sighed and grimaced and sipped from a flask. It made Huaisang wonder whether he fell on the side of the us.]
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[His old familiar catchphrase is hardly comforting at this time. Wolfe's assessment seems right in the us-vs-them regard of the situation. There were confused people from a variety of worlds, and then there were the too-happy, extra-compliant locals. The only unhappiness Huaisang had seen any of the locals exhibit was from that guardsman, the one who sighed and grimaced and sipped from a flask. It made Huaisang wonder whether he fell on the side of the us.]