[In a way, it's weirdly comforting, to know people can be petty enough to start wars despite everything else going on, the Storm and all. Granted, the natives don't know about that, and he has to remind himself still.

Granted, it's not comforting in a good way. But it's familiar. He shrugs, still thinking about the crushing weight of the entire universe somewhere in the back of his mind. So the tension of that is still there.]

I live in Olympia because that's where I first started rebuilding my life. I have no unshakable loyalty to them, however; I have friends and acquaintances in both cities and some who've chosen neither. If it came down to trouble and I had to leave, it would not pain me overmuch.

[Zevran purses his lips, and hums, tilting his head.]

Politically, however? Given everything going on at the moment, I feel we'd much better be served as a group by going our own way. That has its own difficulties, of course. And it goes without saying I'd not speak such treason among the natives. I've no wish to make my own life more difficult than it would otherwise be.