And one of the people who might have been the best equipped to find a way to fix this without rolling over a town.

[ She won't let him retreat back behind the screens of justification that Jorgmund is all too happy to roll out. But also, she doesn't need to break him. He's already broken: this is a scared wreck of a man whose only comfort is probably the belief that he's had no choice. ]

[ She sees the paper then, and it knocks the other thoughts away. ]

...Is that what I think it is?

[ Oh god damn. She straightens, trying to downplay how important this might be but only barely managing. ]