"Perhaps they have, though I'm fairly certain they carried on without me quite well."

He paused in the doorway, glancing fondly out at the room beyond and shrugged.

"And maybe. I try to be as honest as I can elsewhere as well, but honesty between politicians is a risky thing. Like wounding yourself and walking straight into a scraplet invested territory. I knew that even before I became a Prime."

With a final, dry look, he stepped back out into the consort room.