For the most part, they are a small-minded bunch, so that does not surprise me.

[ There's a pause, before he says, very grim, ]

Because I know I can trust an elf like that to do what will serve the greater good for many people, but who will do so more cautiously than a fox. I need to incite in him cause to struggle against the ship; because he will do so cleverly, and bend much of his will to overcoming it if he perceives it a threat. But he would no do so in any wasteful manner, as we have seen others do, and if he could conceive it as the threat it is could be... a great, uniting force.

If I must do so by fanning his fear of me hot and hard, and then demonstrating its malice by comparison... I will do it.