[He makes a noise that might be a laugh, if it weren't so grim.] I suppose that's one way to put it, [he replies, sounding very much like he's doubting the wisdom of his own decision to come here.] But I'm a Warden first, and your enemy is a blighted creature. It would be foolish for me to keep my distance because of-- [because of the bloody battlefield he'd left behind at Ostagar, because of the legacy of slavery forever attached to the Mac Tir name, because of an unnecessary civil war in the Bannorn that he could have put an end to if he'd set aside his own hubris]--...politics.