What Yefefi is saying is extremely encouraging, and Peridot's mood has brightened significantly. There's still a whole boatload of questions that they still need answered, and this whole thing about Eden apparently studying 'Peoples' is concerning in it's own right, but, still. This is progress. She can feel it.

"It'll be a bit difficult for us to promise anything concrete until we can make contact with our boss," Peridot adds, careful to make sure she's being realistic about this and not promising more than they can deliver. "But she's extremely powerful. I'm confident we can come to some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement."