I'm a little confused, if we're being honest. You seem good at politics.

[ He's not, in case that wasn't apparent. ]

If we do, somehow, get an audience with these people—with the Empress. What are we proposing? What's our angle? I mean, I get we're trying to stop a war! But just saying, 'hey, war sucks, don't do it' isn't gonna get rid of the underlying problem, which is that we've got two Empresses and both of them think they're the one.