"No, sometimes it doesn't really achieve anything." Part of why she's keeping mum on that particular topic. "Still, one has to wonder just which side she rests on. I've always...it's a role that's often been expected of me, introducing sense into a situation bereft of it, but many of them will think they're doing the same thing in response."

Like all of the new arrivals who insist their first impressions must be correct, like Newt so determined that he can find a way to overcome the Porter. That the only reason no one has yet is because of complacency. Flashes of Nepeta, fighting against the fate she had waiting for her.

It's exhausting, arguing so much.