Destron's Headquarters, Crook of the Plains - Eerongal and Ambrosius
"Your words betray your own naivete and hypocrisy. I am aware of your, shall we say, 'negotiation' with the merchant earlier. Is murdering a man for a few pieces of currency a 'needed' thing?" He laughs. "You obviously have no sense of how things work in this world for us. I wouldn't expect someone like you, little more than a bandit, to understand the machinations of power between cities.
"Spheremorphs are everything. They are ultimately what marks which city is the most powerful. It is a critical balance. If two cities, such as the twin cities, banded together they could topple the rest of the others." His smile drops for the first time since first seeing him, betraying his own tension, exposing his worries. He is barely even looking at you, seeing some horrid vision of his imagination. "This tournament is not what it appears to be. It is exactly the kind of thing that adventurous Spheremorphs look for. It will draw them like vampire wolves to an injured yak deer. It could end in the ruin of everything we know."
You know his tendency towards drama, but this seems more honest than that. He truly believes these things. And he might be right. "Which is why I've brought you here. I need to know what is happening, who is behind these occurrences and what their aims are, if the stability of our world is to be maintained."
Ambro frowns. "I felt that I was being watched. Anyway, about this tournament, what do you intend to do about it: win it, stop it or rig it?"