"Oh, I like that. Should I be worried about leaving people alive who know what I can do?"

"Mm, that could be bad. Kind of up to you. It's going to come out sooner or later, probably. Maybe carry a fake high tech looking box, act like that's what does it? Murgh, that seems like shenanigans... Hopefully it won't come up."

"I guess it's not like anyone's going to have a hard time noticing we have too much metal eventually."

"Yeah, that's what I mean. We can get pretty far with the lie that I found a cache of Ancestor stuff, that's a thing that's known to happen and when there is a story that doesn't quite fit but that you've heard of happening before, people can sort of latch onto it. And also, no sense letting worry cow you into not doing anything. That's just preemptively letting people bully you into not doing what you want."

"Yeah. You're right. They can't do anything worse than keep us from getting our work done."

"Right... I'm not a fan of cities, personally. There's just too much everything, it feels like. Too many other people, too many of everyone's complicated plans always colliding with each other, too loud. But they're where opportunities are."