Yenna answered the question first, which the two of them had arranged without discussing it. Vell has said he would have answered it worse, and Yenna has said he would have answered it kindly.
"There is an honest path," she said, "and it is not the one you are asking about."
"Say the difference," Jia answered from her chair.
"The honest path is that both of us tell you the truth about where this is," Yenna said, "which is not the same as telling you it is going to open."
That is the whole of the answer and everything after it is detail.
The relationship between Vell Ardan and Yenna Rook is fourteen days old in any form that has a name. It survived a poisoning, a broadcast, a City Cup final, plus four seconds of a recording that four relay houses ran for three days.
