“We could do it! We’ve done it before! And this time we have— we have more people, we won’t have a traitor, we can try to get the Badlands on our side, we could have spent the past week preparing instead of forcing me to write reports—“

You don’t have two lives to throw away this time, Tubbo doesn’t say. “Tommy. We are not starting a war with Dream unless it is absolutely necessary. That’s final.”

"He should not be besieging an independent nation because of the actions of one person. --though that is much easier to say than make so."

“Right, I would love for him to not be, but given that he is, we have to be realistic here.”

"--I may have an unfairly low assessment of his likelihood to listen to reason."

“Well, if he doesn’t listen to reason it won’t really matter because we’ll all be screwed, but I really do think it’ll be okay as long as Tommy doesn’t fuck it up for himself.”

"We'll just have to hope for the best. Plan for the worst, also, but hope for the best."

“Yeah.”

“Your plan for the worst had better not involve fucking exiling me.”

“…It’s an option. I will do everything I can to make sure it doesn’t come to that, right, but if Dream really wants you gone… we have to at least discuss it.”

“You know, if the roles were reversed, I wouldn’t even consider it. It would never be an option for me. You’re— you’re my best friend, I would never fucking do that shit.”

“I’m the President, Tommy. My duties require me to consider all possible options, not just the ones I like. I’m not going to exile you, just— just behave for Dream and I won’t have any reason to justify that.”

It's... Something, to know that even somewhere as foreign as here, some things are the same. "I will do whatever I can to prevent that."

“See, the new guy gets it! Up top, Big J.” He puts his hand in the air. 

He also puts his hand in the air. Is this how they salute here?

Tommy slaps Jingyan's hand with his! It doesn't really hurt, and it seems to be a friendly gesture.

... This is probably just how they salute then.

"That's... very nice of you, really, and of course we accept you as a citizen and all that, but... As far as I know, you don't have any armor, or weapons, or... food... which is fine! You just joined today! But unless you're a secret Technoblade or something, I don't know how much you'll be able to help if anything escalates."

"I may not be able to help martially very much now-- but I am still willing to help."

"I... don't think Dream is going to accept diplomacy from anyone not in the cabinet, let alone someone as new as you. Unless you have other ideas?"

"Do you know of anything he wants?"

"...Tommy's discs."

"No. Nope. Absolutely not. We are getting that disc back, you hear me, we are not giving him another."

"They're your discs, I'm not going to do anything with them you don't want. But Jingyan asked if there was anything else he wanted."

"He wants Spirit."