"That is perhaps the most valuable skill in a leader. Lord Ma Gui and High Chief Fu You were both particularly gifted in that capacity." And he'd learned much from them, as a boy and a man and eventually as the true leader of his people alongside them.

"But they were both also-" He pauses, trying to decide how to put it- "Very careful to remember that people were more than simply tools in their hands. It is part of what made them truly great and gifted leaders."