If I could do my job, and complete my purpose, without you all being here, I would do so. I don't want to "kidnap" any of you.

[ with a slight huff. ]

I don't want to take over worlds, and I don't want to ruin their lives. I want to help the people on these worlds in whatever way they can be helped, whether it be food, or water, or shelter, or simply finding a voice of their own. Amplify their stories, talk to the people, and ask what they want, if anything. And if you can gain an audience with the King? Even better. Share those stories with him, and perhaps that will make a difference. Perhaps it won't.

[ astoria shrugs slightly. ]

We won't know unless we try. Right?