"Not really," he said. "But no one who's actually still here at the moment deserves getting yelled at about it. Ben's first act as king was to start trying to change things for the better and he's been at it since, and so has his fiancé, Mal, since she's got on board. Plus Mal's kinda a victim of this whole icky business herself, though she'd kick my butt if she knew I'd called her that. Merlin's lurking around somewhere, but I ran into him here once and found out he's actually against the whole magic ban, so he's not really someone to yell at either, assuming you can find him to even try."

"So really as much as I hate it, until we actually manage to solve the whole 'vanished population' issue and get things back to normal, there's not really anyone to be active to ya know? Besides, you gotta remember, this isn't either of our worlds. It's a completely different one with a completely different history, and there's no way we're gonna understand it as well as the people who live here. If a bunch of random outsiders who aren't even supposed to be here started telling them their way of doing things sucked and trying to impose their own views on them... well, how would you react to something like that?"

"Believe me, I've thought about this a lot. I'd love to just be able to bust in and fix things. Part of me has been itching for a fight almost since I got here. But the thing is... if we ended up going too hard or too far, chances are pretty good we'd just end up making things worse, and it wouldn't be us who'd have to live with the consequences. So it's less 'don't help' and more... be careful how we help, and remember that ultimately the locals have the final say in how their world is run."