He stares at her for a moment. She had been there then? ...Of course.
His grimace thins in thought. "Doubt the people here trust them any more than we do." Not after the tournament. Not that there likely weren't few sympathizers in the crowd, but out-right trust by the majority was a little much to expect, not after the Anoli had tried to kill the mayor and terrorized countless others. "Doesn't mean they haven't been thinking about what the Anoli brought up before. They just gave people reason to think about it, is all."
Bringing that sense of distrust and suspicion right out into the open, using a very public and heavily populated venue, guaranteed it would be talked about, discussed, and debated. That in turn might make people that were more hesitant about talking about it more vocal in their opinions. With any luck, Nicholas' ideas would help change people's perceptions, though what impact it'd have is impossible to say.
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His grimace thins in thought. "Doubt the people here trust them any more than we do." Not after the tournament. Not that there likely weren't few sympathizers in the crowd, but out-right trust by the majority was a little much to expect, not after the Anoli had tried to kill the mayor and terrorized countless others. "Doesn't mean they haven't been thinking about what the Anoli brought up before. They just gave people reason to think about it, is all."
Bringing that sense of distrust and suspicion right out into the open, using a very public and heavily populated venue, guaranteed it would be talked about, discussed, and debated. That in turn might make people that were more hesitant about talking about it more vocal in their opinions. With any luck, Nicholas' ideas would help change people's perceptions, though what impact it'd have is impossible to say.