Raj gave Paul his best fake smile and patted himself on the chest. "I pride myself on my honesty and trustworthiness. We simply haven't finished our experiments yet, so we didn't share the news.
Can't risk messing up the control group for our experiments, after all."
None of the other Guild Masters were happy about being called the 'control group' for this particular experiment. They all had members who needed gear, and Raj was saying that they were being deliberately left to figure it out on their own, as part of an experiment to see if anyone else would manage the same feat.
"Why don't we step inside and discuss it out of the sun?" Paul suggested.
Many Alliances would refuse and request a neutral location, in case things got messy with the negotiations. But Raj recalled that Cara had mentioned that they had guests coming, not that there was going to be a big fight.
