The hall had gone very quiet again.
Gelion apparently took the quiet as attentiveness, because he kept going.
"I want to be clear that adjacent isn't a negative designation," he said. "Most people are adjacent to the significant events of their era."
"Well, in fact... that's statistically normal because the issue is when someone who is adjacent to a situation starts making decisions as though they're central to it, because that introduces variables that the people who are actually running the operation haven't accounted for."
"And that's what you think I'm doing," Rex said.
