[She offers a wry turn of her lips.] Well, I don’t much fancy our odds of getting out of here without their help.

[She’d be lying if she said she hadn’t considered it, at least briefly, upon arriving here. The Pleroma have largely been kind to her and thus far haven’t given her any reason to doubt them… yet past experience has made her a tad cynical, to put it mildly.

Either way, Dorothea knows very well the importance of a strategic alliance. Speaking of:]

Quite the turn of events, to find us in league together now, wouldn’t you say?