"War of the Wings is Atlantia's own war, it's not like external wars like - Pennsic is always East versus Mid every year -" 

"Except when it's East and Mid versus everyone," Haley chimes in. 

"- right, yeah, but War of the Wings is different every year because it's Atlantia's own war, I'm not sure what it is this year. Last year it was north vs south I think?" 

Haley has already whipped out her phone and is Googling. "Looks like we're doing East versus West this year which is delightful for all of us smack bang in the middle."

"I thought last year was Sacred Stone versus everyone else?" 

"Let's not pretend they don't just rebalance the teams according to whatever would be most fun on the day." 

Iomedae looks confusedly at Lucy who seems to have a principled stance that killing is barely even nonevil when in uncomplicated self-defense, and who does not seem to be objecting to ...war?

"People sworded, in war?" she asks.

".....hmmmm?" Lucia was busy inhaling an entire bowl of potato and is now considering waffles. Waffles are so good but she is trying to exist on a budget. "Oh - yeah we use swords for war, what else would we use? I guess there's archery and siege?" 

WAIT A SECOND 

"Not real swords though!! Like our practice swords."

"Ohhhhhhhhh. Is - see who is best sword, not many people die?"

"Nobody will actually die, like, nobody, don't worry. It's just what we call a big multiple day camping event. This one is a week long and it's Atlantia's own war, so it's all friends and it's very cosy." 

"Oh!!... War in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, these are camping events?"

"No, the Gulf war was a training exercise and camping event-" 

"Roger please-" 

Cináed, under the table, steps on Roger's foot. 

"None of those wars were camping events! Those were real wars. Iomedae - we recreate medieval wars, it's a pretend war not a real war."

Oh no, she caused awkwardness - oh no, she suspects she knows what they thought she was saying and - "I no am saying America wrong to war!" It is definitely illegal to say that. Iomedae is not planning to show up to her new order and immediately strike up seditious conversation over eggs and steak! "America great and America steel mans know much, much more than me, I do not know things. I pray for America knights. I want to know where they fight camping event, where they fight evil."

"Well I'll say America was wrong in those wars-" 

"Lucy, how about we talk about something else than that?"

- because jesus, Lucy can have that conversation anytime she likes with her friends but he doesn't want his coworker to think that the SCA debates whether there were WMDs in Iraq after every practice, he doesn't know the man's politics at all -

"Cináed I do want to hear what you were saying about the meal plan?" 

Lucy waits until Cináed and Gabriel have established a side conversation about Baronial camp meals and then turns back to Iomedae. "Also America doesn't have knights. The SCA wars have knights and they're just.... for honour and glory. America fights real wars with guns where people actually die. But War of the Wings is just for fun." 

Robert doesn't work for the government, but he has the political habits of people who work for the government or might want to at some point, which are to not express opinions you would not want read in a Senate confirmation hearing. The most controversial thing he has ever said about the Iraq war is that he thinks there are a great many problems closer to home, and that only after Obama's re-election.

It is very unsurprising that Lucy is absolutely in favor of sedition over steak and eggs and Iomedae sort of admires this but also is very scared by it. "Thank you. I think I understand. SCA war, no one dies." It's a tournament. "America wars, it insult great men for girl say of those."

Lucia is going to keep a polite smile on her face because this isn't the fence post in a corner of a field where she can actually argue with Iomedae without being overheard, this is a Waffle House, but she is still going to firmly state, "Girls can say whatever they want in America." 

Iomedae finds this claim about as credible as Lucy's claims that the priests are all lying. She tries to think of a polite way to say this.

"It is so in Heaven," she decides on, after a little while.