[ It's not unusual for Neuvillette to know of the Heavenly Principles. All Archons and their assistants or familiars ought to know. Still, his instincts have never betrayed him, and they still scream that he's hiding something.

He isn't rising to the bait, anyhow, so the drifter decides to drop that line of inquiry. Neuvillette no doubt had a number of secrets he was keeping as the co-leader of a nation. It wasn't necessary for him to weasel them out of the Iudex right now. It would be a betrayal of the trust he's decided to place in the drifter, and he doesn't feel like being a traitor today.

Hopefully he won't have to be one in the future. ]

Well, fortunate then that the past can't be changed. [ And wouldn't he know that. ] Either way, our enemy isn't someone to be trifled with, and I doubt they plan to leave us alone after dragging us here.