[Yuan huffs. It would be overly charitable to call the sound a laugh, but there's some bad humor in it.]

Sometimes unenviable choices need to be made. If you try to save everyone, you may save no one instead.

[But there's a reason they're doing this, after all. Yuan's gaze drifts out the window at the other side of the room.]

I suppose that's why we're working together, isn't it?

[That they may temper the unrelieved idealism of youth.]

[Sheena unfolds, then folds her arms again, shifting not entirely comfortably.]

...I guess we don't really have the resources to split up, huh.

[If only they could do both. If she can really pull off this pact, though, it'll only help them save the people at the ranch.]