Everyone should prefer that no one be unchecked, seba-rekhet. Especially in a place like this, where there ends up being a gathering of people who outstrip the checks and balances this world is able to provide.

[ So many of them here could do so much damage -- and Raine seems to be right in the thick of all of them. The thought's never far from his mind, even without his latest tangle with Valdis. He follows it with a shrug, but he agrees with her observation. ]

There are. She's young enough it could still go either way, though.