He waited out that non answer; it came too readily to be serious, at least applied to this place. World peace needed a little more world, and a little less being brought in against their wills.

"If you're looking for the Atroma to actively show their presence, you may be disappointed. If they're out there, they don't seem too inclined to make it known. Or perhaps the Agrii are too convenient a screen." How much influence one had on — or over — the other, he didn't know. Too many unknowns there, and hard to determine the extent of the truth. Even if he trusted asking the Agrii, the language barrier alone posed its own difficulty.

"Nothing I'm likely to get," he answered eventually. "So it's irrelevant."