[ She's right, and the slip earns a flicker of straightforward embarrassment. They're here to stop a trade; the world's just the stage and, if he'd gotten the right impression, at risk of being collateral.
And that's the catch: they've been sent here to meddle in things they shouldn't, to put the station's needs ahead of this world's. Mat can understand that there's a longer con to it than that, that good and evil plays for the war, not one battle — and he does, really. That doesn't mean he has to be pleased about it. ]
Burn the mission briefing. I don't care what you're here to do, but burn you too if you think I'll let them play me for a puppet.
[ He says, stubbornly, as if the disgust and self-righteousness her question stirred up hasn't thoroughly blown up his spot. ]
lexa u cracked him like an egg
And that's the catch: they've been sent here to meddle in things they shouldn't, to put the station's needs ahead of this world's. Mat can understand that there's a longer con to it than that, that good and evil plays for the war, not one battle — and he does, really. That doesn't mean he has to be pleased about it. ]
Burn the mission briefing. I don't care what you're here to do, but burn you too if you think I'll let them play me for a puppet.
[ He says, stubbornly, as if the disgust and self-righteousness her question stirred up hasn't thoroughly blown up his spot. ]