I am hardly asking for you to choose me above all of our people, but my designs are hardly so short-sighted.

[There is more to say, more he wants to say, but it is too soon to reveal. He has something smaller to tell him, but. It can wait just a little longer.]

You would turn down the opportunity for me to help you? For me to be able to source teams of brilliant minds from within what can clearly hold us stable and give bodies to those without them? I think we should ask the rest of The Convocation before you make such a choice by yourself.

After all, we stand inside a time machine. Does that not excite you?