[Nita should have seen that one coming; she shakes her head.]

Speed it up, maybe. If we had a way to multiply our energy...

[The peridexis quietly coughs in the back of her mind, but Nita's mired in her own thoughts right now.]

But some of the people here I've seen don't want to trust any of what's going on here at all, being taken from their homes with as little explanation as we've got, and that's no grounds for a productive relationship, no matter what we're here to do.