"And so you see, this is why communication is very, very important," Barda Levite said.
"If you communicate your intent, if you communicate your desire, if you communicate what you feel, the other party doesn't make any wrong assumptions based on the fragmented information they can glean from the way you act without communicating, and you can avoid situations where they do things that, to put it bluntly, piss you off."
"Is that so?" a calm voice responded, and Barda nodded.
"Indeed, that is so. In your case, Miss Priscilla, you and your dear brother could've avoided every possible problem in the entirety of this Cosmos if you'd simply decided to say a single line to him. 'I do not like that you're involving yourself with the same Cosmic Forces that took our home and loved ones away from us.'
If you'd simply told him that, then your brother, who loves you so, so much, more than anything else in the Cosmos, would've definitely done something else."
