Esme: You should have listened when your guild leader told you to get an aethame. Do you think your jewelry can save you from our methods?

Kore: Years ago, my father tried to give me a piece of business advice...

Kore:...for when one is negotiating from a reasonable position of power...and not, say, chained to the ceiling of a cargo container in the Negev...and it's this: you don't have to stand up to bullies.

Kore: He told me: just walk away. And I said, your feet have to be touching the ground.

Kore: Now that made him uncomfortable. It was always difficult for him to speak to me, especially after...

Kore: Just leave, he said. Like it was infallible advice.

Kore: So you've now got a choice: Do you want to walk away...

Kore: Of should we turn this into a party?

Kore: I can make the word 'telepath' the least of your worries.

Marozi: Here, Kore, I think you need this.

Kore: Thanks Rafe.

Kore: And don't look at me like that. She does that to the wrong person--me on a bad day-- and she'll get killed and dumped in a barrel.

Marozi: I was with you.

Marozi: A river of water in a dry place. The shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Marozi: Go easy on her. She's very very young.

Kore: Very well, as you command.

Marozi: Now, don't you have a debate to win?

Kore: Yes, I do.