He waved off her concern with a half truth. "I am hoping you might overhear something to help the diplomats get this done so we can get to the REAL reason I was brought here. I had been hoping to take a couple months to start on that, but this mission came up first. But keeping from getting caught as a spy is more important."<br/><br/>That done, he headed to find the diplomats, to figure out what they wanted done so far as defense here went, and how they should approach the armies.