Jaren didn't understand Nadia's desire to...try and weasel him out of the situation when he'd already accepted it as it was. As if it was that hard to perform the specified tasks. Nadia's speech might have caused even more problems in a different setting, and managed to set off a twinge of annoyance which was not apparent on Jaren's facial features.

"I have no further questions," he said finally to Professor Virohsa.