How can we work together with the same people who torture us on a monthly basis? And that's not even including the kidnappings. And the drafts...

[Ion was always a very trusting person. Even now, there are people who would still call him too trusting. But the malnosso were just about the only people in the world he could honestly say he hated.]

If they see no problem with inflicting all of that on us, who's to say they would be willing to help us at all, and not just use us to help themselves?