'You've given a much better impression', Faolan says, and Lancelot's eyebrows loft curiously -- then further as Faolan continues on.

"A negotiation?" he echoes, "what for?"

Any negotiation with Sylvia, Lancelot suspects, is going to be costly -- and certainly not on Sylvia's part. His first instinct is a way out of his contract -- but Lancelot isn't even sure if that is possible. Can you be let go peacefully as a Guardian? Has anyone ever retired?

He doesn't think it'd be easy.