[ She keeps hold of his hand for a long moment, squeezing, and only lets go when he passes back the joint. Humming, she taps the ash off while looking into the fire. Goro's presence makes her upset precisely because she worries about what he knows -- while her hatred generally expresses itself in petty, childish insults, it stems from her very real fear that he will succeed in igniting a war, and she suspects that he'll use any information he gleans in the Horizon to turn the natives against the Summoned who refuse to support him.

She can't lose another world. She doesn't get another chance. ]

Oh, for sure. I think we shoulda shut the whole meeting down the second he put one giant fuckin' lizard foot on the lawn, but... [ She trails off. But Sam still thinks diplomacy is an option here, she doesn't say. It's not -- Goro has said since his arrival that his goal is just to spill blood. Before he ever had an excuse to rile up the locals, he'd told Julie that he wanted to fight people from other worlds. ] Anyway, I don't know that anyone said anythin' he can use, so that's the important part. The natives already know that the Singularity's messin' with the world, or at least they do in Thorne.