Reshad gives a nod of apology. "Thank you," she murmurs, after the name. It isn't easy to hear one spoken that you do not prefer.
The easy part is done: confirmation that it is as Jedao feared, and Remi is some precursor to the Nirai hexarch. She can almost hear it again: someone like him wouldn't rise high. And yet -
Hexarch Nirai Kujen would have been extraordinarily well placed to make sweeping changes to the calendar. And what is the calendar here?
Remi's immediate dive into calendrical mathematics has implications, too. He seems confident he could model it, given time. Given resources. There's no way for Reshad to derive the information she wants without tipping her hand, and so she does not bother to try. This is unkind, but scanning around the exhaust plume is likely to be worse.
"Could you do it?" she asks. "Knowing that." She'd seen him blanch; she can hope the answer is no.
More, she's seen him in a reaction she suspects to be honest. She watches, now, for the telltales of a lie.
Re: A Second Interview (Paging Remi, Ione, Sulen, Xiulan, and Sasha)
The easy part is done: confirmation that it is as Jedao feared, and Remi is some precursor to the Nirai hexarch. She can almost hear it again: someone like him wouldn't rise high. And yet -
Hexarch Nirai Kujen would have been extraordinarily well placed to make sweeping changes to the calendar. And what is the calendar here?
Remi's immediate dive into calendrical mathematics has implications, too. He seems confident he could model it, given time. Given resources. There's no way for Reshad to derive the information she wants without tipping her hand, and so she does not bother to try. This is unkind, but scanning around the exhaust plume is likely to be worse.
"Could you do it?" she asks. "Knowing that." She'd seen him blanch; she can hope the answer is no.
More, she's seen him in a reaction she suspects to be honest. She watches, now, for the telltales of a lie.