This is all perspective that he could find valuable, but there is still one nagging factor that is repeatedly being ignored. He can take 'there's nothing to be done right now' as an answer, even if he has his own objectives that he wouldn't so quickly dismiss, even if he doesn't like. The trouble is that it runs against the actions of Solvunn itself.

Beyond that, he gathers that she means to imply that even if Thorne's recruits could control the Singularity at a greater level, they would not be so quick to pass it along to their masters. Yet, in his opinion, the comparison fails, in that the people that stuck around to serve Ambrose in the wake of all he'd done are a different breed entirely. There are more objections he could make, more points to discuss the finer points of, but none of that is worthwhile until one specific thing is clarified.

"Surely you must realize the contradiction at the heart of your assurances," he says. "If you would suggest to me that Solvunn is safe, that the High Mage is ineffectual, that there is no danger on the horizon to prepare for... then why has Solvunn begun to summon more of my kind, all while telling them that we are on the brink of disaster?"

There is no point in continuing if this issue will not be addressed, as it is the center of Estinien's discontent. If this had been a couple of months ago, Estinien could have understood Solvunn seeing no need for action in the immediate future - but it is their own words and deeds that have driven him to seek direction. They are the ones claiming that there is a threat. They are the ones instigating this by summoning people just like Thorne had.

It's no longer Solvunn simply taking on refugees of a mess started in another kingdom. They have made themselves part of it.