"That's right. I'm a foreigner. Nobody gives a fuck about me, not for hundreds of years in any direction, maybe not ever. So if I do fuck up, if I get myself captured or killed, it's just me. They can't go after my household, my family-- probably even the mountains I loved have holes blown in them, by now. What about you, Sulen? Whom are you risking? Which are the intelligent beings you're willing to let die?"