“No games,” Ambassador Red Leaf said. “But we’ve work to do, and rapidly, you and me. I simply wanted to show you I’m not a fool.” “Many would consider showing your cards immediately to be foolish indeed,” Kip said. My grandfather, for one, the best player of them all. “Many would. But not you. You have shown yourself capable of wielding the truth like a scalpel, but you prefer to use it as a hammer. You like to shock people into silence by telling truths they can’t believe you’d actually say.” Kip said nothing. This man thought he was clever. Perhaps he was.
