Shade-Seeker chuckles. "They are in less of a position to do so. I am not the greatest master of any art but one, and that one is not held high, but I have proven to be multidisciplinarian enough to stand farther forward in the current crisis than any of my critics dare. As one philosopher put it, 'I do not fear the knife in my back, for those who would place it must approach me first.'"