[if she's just a young girl, then his hat's a radish. ]

It's all of a piece, isn't it? [he sighs in a mock-tragic way.] They're going to keep trying to kill us if we try to halt the mining, but I think we've split our efforts enough that nothing is going to go ignored.

But the finer details of Zymandis will probably have to wait until we get back, unless the Taraxa will talk.