[Self-interested. Her disdain for that word... is doubled, because she knows that once... She had been something like the same. She knows exactly what it leads to... and she- She had changed, had she not? So she has the right to hate it more bitterly than anyone, because she knows for a fact that it does not have to be that way, nor stay that way.]

That seems to be the case. And as long as it is, he and those like him cannot be trusted not to betray our cause to Zenith or simply go over to their side, should the tides of war or their fickle interests change.

[... She actually appreciates the word "copulation", whatever the motive. Fane is talking to a woman who normally refers to consensual sex as "sharing a pillow" or "embracing", so. Thanks, skeleton buddy. She saves her crude words for jinba treatment and insulting traitor whores.]

His copulation with one of the strongest Zenites that strands between us and our goal.

[Just! So it's clear! That man can fuck as many Meris and Springstar citizens as he wants and she wouldn't care!!!]

One who poisoned and ki-

[... No one heard that, right??? Moving on!!!]

- But no, it is not. There are several Meridian members who claim loyalty to the cause yet maintain... close relationships with Zenites that risk compromising us or allowing themselves to be manipulated or weakened.

And for some reason, [I] we are supposed to simply overlook or stomach this.