[When you are two City theater kids who like to brood on feelings instead of expressing them properly, you get the old staring into distance hangout...great minds think alike.]

[He folds his arms as she talks, before heaving a sigh. City bullshit indeed.]

They want to get what they want. One always sees people pull things like this - like strings on puppets, just to get what they want. Merlin is now an example.

[And with an example at hand...]

I hardly think people are going to play nice now. Bloodshed will now come in a wake, Xiao. Fear and panic will set in, and the expected result will come.