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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urko" data-source="post: 2295275" data-attributes="member: 30822">An unusual offerFor the briefest of moments, it looks as if Kajalaketh is consumed with rage, then he throws his head back and laughs heartily. ”The time has come, I think, for us all to be honest with one another. I think I understand what is happening here and, in truth, it is no laughing matter - please accept my apologies for my merriment at your expense. I forget sometimes just how lost all of you Khorvairans must feel. After a century of war, how can you feel anything but suspicion towards government, whose role should be to protect the people, not send them to kill one another? I hope you do not take offense at the pity of a foreigner, but I can assure you that you would have no such fears if you had grown up in my own homeland. Let me assure you, then, that we have chosen to help the Q’Barran government because we admire the fact that it was founded as an escape from the madness that consumed the rest of this continent.”  His voice takes on a somewhat condescending tone.  ”I know how hard it is to forget a lifetime of distrust, so I will make you an offer. I myself will stay here as a guarantee of your friends’ safety – a "hostage," I believe, is your word for it.”</blockquote>