[Emet-Selch's eyes narrow slightly.]

Even if such a thing were the case, I labor to believe that the Emissary of all people would allow personal feelings to interfere with his judgment in any way. Perhaps you've never seen it, but I have - the way his focus shifts immediately whenever some new matter arises which requires his attention. In that moment, he is not himself, but an adjudicator; a mediator.

And I daresay the only one of us who has reason to dread is me.