Not really. [ He can admit that easily enough. ] But they pretend they do sometimes. Besides, aren't they all about wanting to police who gets into their sacred land?

[ Leith isn't Qresh by any stretch of the imagination, but it's better than Westerley. And its inhabitants know that. They probably think themselves better than the Westies too.

He meets her gaze again, because eventually it boils down to: ] I can't do nothing.