[He doesn't roll his eyes maybe but Sarah just sort of naturally flicks her gaze upward in not quite a roll but almost there at the same time. Exasperation? No, not really that either. It's the same unthinking gesture she gives Toby when he huffs out something along the lines of, "That's not how it works at all, Sarah."

There's a momentary pang of loneliness in there somewhere but she breezes past it as well as she breezes past arguing anything. It's not a point worth debate in the end.

Sarah rests her own elbows to either side of the paper before her, now fiddling with that pen with both hands and letting her gaze drift over the books once more.]

Yeah, that's what I figured too.

[Finally she looks back down to her writing, pursing her lips gently in thought.]

It's more than a little frustrating not having the full picture but at this point... well, me personally? All I can really see doing is continuing forward. Use what this place offers and what the Emperor offers but not stack your trust in them either.

[Then she shrugs her shoulders a bit faintly, gaze flicking back up to him now. Her smile is faint and lightly tired.]

I'm going to guess that's the choice a lot of people might end up making.

[It's the only logical, sane choice honestly. However... ah, damn her bleeding heart. She thinks of everything the Emperor said to her and just keeps drifting back to that one point. If this was months ago she would have still felt the same so she couldn't blame it on Moppet or anything like that.]

If this place really is dying though...

[That complicates a lot of things. She's nearly watched one world crumble away as the will that held it together failed -- hell, she was standing in the middle of it as it broke apart.]