No, you don't. [Vandelin never learns, not quickly enough. Myr might be the steadfast traditionalist of the pair of them, but when it comes down to it, he's always been the quicker one to adapt to change, even if Vandelin's the one agitating for it. Van's sworn to himself he would try harder to compromise, to sympathize without trying to rebut, but when push comes to shove, it always ends up like this. He sighs.]

I'm sorry. That was...unnecessary.

But I don't know what you wanted me to tell you. I can't make people think any differently about Anders. And I'm telling you that if you're glad about what you had back home--

[The word reveals more than he meant to, more than he even realizes, for all his usual eagle-sharp attention to every minute detail of word connotation.]

Tell people why. Explain it to them. Make them listen. Something is going to have to be done about the Circles eventually, and if they have to be rebuilt in some capacity--even a voluntary one--we can take what was important to you about them and use it. It doesn't all have to be so...past-tense.