[Maybe it's that very flicker of surprise that keeps Flint from flattening a look back at Byerly on behalf of 'diplomatic liability.' Ordinarily, it's a remark that would warrant at least a measure of pettiness. Instead, as if in rhythm with Yseult—]

We don't know that they're proper Templars either. The Order may have been formally recalled to the Exalted March, but it's hardly as if we're lacking in outliers.

[Would Marcus care to discriminate between the two? Enough to communicate it in some fashion Tsenka might parse with any confidence?]

To that end, I imagine it would be in all of our interests [he's counting Riftwatch's mages in this assessment] to see that whoever we send after them is able to recognize this as a complex question. Derrica, one of our ex-Templars, a Warden if one can be scrounged.