She's sure not shy about telling it how she sees it. "Short and to the point," he observes, and the words have a trace of approval in them. He doesn't think he's quite as aggressively blunt as Raven or even Glain, but outspokenness is a quality in himself he can appreciate in others, particularly today when there's been plenty of talk but little action. "You should be leading these discussions. They'd be shorter, if nothing else."

Nothing against the efforts of those here, trying to find answers for questions they don't even know how to ask yet. If Jess sounds glib, it's his personal impatience talking--impatience with his own shortcomings and the obtuse motives of those who seem to want him bound and gagged and living domestically in a pioneer village like a good little farm hand.

His eye catches on the sling with the frayed rope. "It's a bit outside your wheelhouse as a mechanic. Do you know how?" Honest curiosity.