[Darras--sorry, Yseult--snorts. Too amused.]

Now, that's unkind.

[But he raises his glass all the same, once Yseult has poured out.]

Everyone's got-- [and this one's slightly shorter pause, a chasm that's more a crack, just for the sake of time] --friends. It's just that everyone's friends don't get tapped for head of Diplomacy for Riftwatch, and it's only a few whose friends would show up and see someone who's now become someone else. Bad luck is really the one to blame here.