"Perhaps I'll find something else."

"Let me know if you need to borrow my topic idea list."

"Ooh, I might."

"It's mostly just the same thing as Constellation Center's site map, to be perfectly honest."

"I'll check there. There's probably something I can load with salt."

"I mostly try not to annoy Mercedes. Networking reasons."

Sigh. "Reasonable. Even if I wish it weren't."

"She's not that bad and it's only once a week."

"It isn't only the practical results that irk me. I find being commanded by fiat irksome. If it were a general preference--but if it is only her own preference--"

"People did vote for her. I voted for her, because the alternative was Faith and Faith wants to turn the club into a miniature church."

"Being the lesser of two evils is of course preferable to being the greater of two evils but it is insufficient not to irk me."

"Maybe Jaromira will activate and she can campaign."

"That would be the ideal, yes."

"So hopefully you can't sense incipient magic, or can only do that if you spend ninety hours with a Paladin style consultant."

"I think I prefer the latter."

"Their rates are insane for non-Paladins. I don't know exactly how rich you are but it's a lot."

"Not rich enough to do that casually. But I prefer not to rule things out."

"The B-list stylists could probably get you close to the same standard."

"Maybe I'll get lucky and your brother will become a Paladin-class stylist and give me a discount for dating you."

"Maybe. I can't be a Paladin personally, the powerset's good but I can't move right, but that doesn't have to stop him."

"I can't be a Paladin because I chafe at authority too badly to work for the government."

"I'm sure there's a recruiter who'd argue with you about that if you turn out to be able to do cool synergistic metamagic given a squad of paladins to work with."

"...They would have to offer me some very cool Paladins indeed."

"The coolest! Why settle for anything less if you're the right kind of metamagic?"

"I see no reason to whatever."