[ to him, they're all in the same situation. to some extent, it ties them all together. for Ren it meant putting aside the personal investment with being right or wrong, and pulling from experiences. it seemed that Lance was able to brush off others experiences for his own, and it strikes an odd—adultish—chord for him. ]

Yeah, it looks like we do.

[ closer, again, to Maruki that's comfortable. they'll have to agree to disagree on that for now, as this was about Riverstone now. ]

Doing something other than going along with their front of experiments. You can take the cautious road, but they've probably caught on already. I don't want to keep acting like the world isn't continuing around us, like it doesn't notice our choices.