[ Ah... kind of like police they could actually trust, huh? ]

It would have been nice to have something like that before we got to where we are now.

[ His voice is a little softer when he says that, and he frowns thoughtfully for a moment before shaking himself out of it. ]

Yes, it does. I won't object to joining forces for the sake of those goals as long as we're here. If it's the same for you, then our allegiance is to children as a whole rather than to any specific group, correct?