[He nods in agreement, his smile warming as he looks over at Alphen from where he continues food preparation, carefully relocating the sliced potatoes into the pot.]

I quite agree. The circumstances are different, of course— the people here do not have centuries of fraught history between them to work through, and so conditions are ideal for cooperation, but I believe Dahnans and Renans are capable of overcoming the past and moving forward together. It will not be easy, but we have already seen the beginnings of it.

[Or— he has, at least.]

This place... it is strange, but it gives me hope.