Well, we can’t just give up. We’re here on a mission, and if these universes hadn’t been merged, they wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. Don’t you think we have kind of an obligation to fix this?

[ she’s right, though. Getting an empress to let visitors who have made it clear they’re a ragtag group with no idea how the land they’ve entered works to let them tell her how to run her own empire? uhhhh. ]