[ A pause. The conversation felt so eerily similar to one she'd had not long ago. ]

They lack the... perspective, you've found? To see everything the way you do, and believe it, yes?

[ -- And we’ll play as many times as it takes before I win -- echoes as a thought, an echo from only months ago -- what feels like an eternity now. ]

Is that what you'll promise them? [ A slight nod, to some among the ranks, the Kenoma. ] A way to...overcome their failings? [ Another pause. ] Perhaps all of our failings, if you win us over in the end?