She hunkers in nearer and stares into his frowning face, focusing on his remaining eye.

"If you have not met your food and looked it in the eye then you do. Not. Know. Believe what you want about their skills and motives, but when I appeared here they told me that my arrival was a mistake."

She scoots back in the water and sinks back down again.

"But in the end you will believe what you wish to believe. Habit is easier than change."