"Perhaps, with very understandable reason," Deanna agreed, with a small nod. "Would not we all hold some things back if it seemed as though we had been taken from our homes, without a clear reason, by a foreign transgressor claiming equal confusion and innocence, and could not be promised to be returned to them just as quickly?"

Even if it was the truth, save for the details of Q known to a selective few only, it was a lot to ask of so many.

Given what the worst projections of reactions could have been, they've all been very lucky up to now.