[The Pope, asking about Yuan in a positive light? Now that is suspicious. The man's push for stricter regulations and punishments for half-elves is something Yuan has noted -- very unfavorably -- and he can't imagine his race was left out of any report.]

[It never is.]

[All that aside: instinct can be a powerful thing.]

They are, aren't they?

[He really doesn't mean it to sound like indulgence of a child. It's just another fact to pool in.]

[Not so very idly, Yuan wonders how the Pope would feel about a divine visit, and whether purloined Church robes combined with a great deal of excess light magic will pass for divine radiance as well as they once did.]

[He rests his chin in one hand and focuses on Zelos, eyes no longer distant.]

It's a good instinct. When something goes wrong, looking for the people who are acting differently from what you'd normally expect of them. Whether in a bad or good way.