Mmm. It was complicated, obviously. But I was part of the group that the mages voted on, to go negotiate. And I thought at the time... it seemed to be the skeleton of something that might be built on. A group of mages — Maker knows we didn't agree on much — working out priorities and working together to try to reach an agreement everyone could live with.

The deck was stacked against us, but we were invited to the table, which was quite a first concession in itself under the circumstances.

[He wasn't sure it would happen, if the matter had come up today instead. But that was a different problem.