It isn't as oppressive, but it's...[Meteion furrows her brow and frowns a little. There's fear and anticipation, and none of it is really the happy sort of anticipation, like one gets with a good surprise. There's fomenting anger, too. And it isn't even close to the execution date...

The entelechy shakes her head, then.]

Most things like that are because an example needs to be made. But I don't know for sure. Just what I've heard. And I don't like what I've heard. They're more sad and scared in Venera. Between the things with our Legacy and now all this...if the Regent wanted to crush their hope, they're getting what they want.

[And the bird is definitely unhappy about it.]