[It's no secret her distaste of the Council, unfortunately for everyone involved.]

I would think that the point if it weren't for the ceremony of seeing all the new faces, it's pretty obvious to see how large the groups are getting if they have them all in one spot? [It's so strange to her, because none of it is really adding up to her.]

... It is. I certainly wouldn't be going home, either, not that I have much of one to go back to. But I would prefer doing almost literally anything else other than being stuck here. And excuse you, Edgin, I resemble that remark. [She is not, in fact, at all mad about it.]