[Yuan catches that, fractional as it is, and has to wonder why Kratos is expecting bad news--]

[Ah. That's right. Good news from headquarters can be reasonably assumed is bad news for Tethe'alla.]

[As a connection, it shouldn't have taken him that long to draw.]

Dispensation's been granted for some of the prisoners of war to be naturalized. There'd still be a period of indenture, but you'd technically no longer be anyone's property.