I know. And he might easily not think it's enough, if he did believe.

You urged me to take a chance, to try trust. I offered him his sword back. He didn't take it. Furious enough to be dangerous, too honest to reach for something he wants badly. He is trying.

[It's frustrating, because he thinks Flint wouldn't feel the injustice of it all so keenly if he were armed, but Jedao can't push it on him, not carelessly, not when James is truly trying to do this in an honorable way, despite all his bitterness.]

In time, if I can bring him to listen, would you?