"Do you think they'd have chosen differently, if they had?"

Zenos' tone is one of faint, amused scepticism, one eyebrow raising slightly as he regards Matt. His own experience was quite different, coming in the second wave, and from what he's heard from Meteion that first impression was particularly ungentle... but the unmaking of reality-entire is always going to be a hard sell. He remembers Himeka's demand for Proof, and her confusion that anyone would fight for the Regent's promise of a world reborn without it. All a more diplomatic opening salvo would have secured, he's pretty sure, is a higher number of defections the first time that conviction was tested.