[ The fact that the defacto leader of the Free Cities wasn't concerned definitely brings a frown to her face. She isn't so naive as to believe they would be considered countrymen or citizens--such things are often hard earned by most no matter how valuable they may seem. But the Summoned are just that...

Valuable. That's the entire point of summoning, isn't it? If it wasn't they would simply use any Tom, Dick, or Harry to wage their war on the Singularity. This conflict wouldn't be at a stalemate.

Still, she has to offer a third option... ]

Or we are more expendable than we'd previously thought.

[ Himeka slowly pushes her hand upwards, a slowly spinning ball of water floating above it as she breaks the surface. ]

The only magicks we have that they do not are...as far as we know, our ability to enter the Singularity. But if they learn how to do that too...