[He's making a point, so he's not disappointed to earn a reaction—angry or otherwise. Talk about fighting back and you need to start taking into account where the leverage is. He spreads his hands as he walks, palm up.]

If you're asking for precedent, I'll have to disappoint.

[To be honest, ALASTAIR is remarkably permissive about what they do with their time. Maybe rocking the boat wouldn't be such a bad thing. They don't enforce much, but they don't inspire much loyalty in their distance, either. Just vague claims of cataclysms and communal efforts to help. Assurances that all this is happening by accident, that working off their debt will get them shipped home soon enough. That they're doing this for the greater good. Fighting against entropy. A tough thing to prove one way or the other, isn't it? Pretty convenient.]

They left Loki red handed for a while after an attempted b&e. Far as I can tell, anything more than that slap on the wrist has been self-governed. [That's about the only time he can recall hearing the Powers that Be stepping in on their business in any way that wasn't issuing general-purpose missions. Even their courses of action and general team morality are crowd funded, and not at all unified.] But I've only been around since Nalawi.

[He does his homework. That only goes so far.]