"I-I really only meant to ask how you were doing!" He waves his hand. He's just also really bad at not focusing on things like 'work' and 'everyone else's imminent mortality'.

"Anyway, as Supervisors I presumed that you were all putting your different focuses together, to create a stronger whole." They're one carnival after all. Absently he reaches to rub the back of his neck before folding his arms. "Diplomacy is what makes us allies, and that can be a deciding factor in--well, any of this."

At least half of what they did in the Pact was diplomacy, something Syrlya had to oversee quite a bit of for its security and success. He doesn't know much of the carnival's team, but... "Truthfully, when we left for the barrens having a more dedicated delegation would have been very helpful. We quite nearly soured that part of the mission."