Notes:

I stood behind the podium, doing my best not to let my confusion show.

Had our party been filled out with reasonable people when I wasn't looking? Had Germanians spontaneously lost their taste for war? I really needed to go back and double check just what kind of campaign promises Visha had been making. It would be tricky to do so without revealing that I hadn't been paying attention at the time, but I could figure something out.