Padmé’s blank expression as she slid the data reader over to Susan made her immediately alert; it was horrifically impolite but their Aqualish hosts, looking for every advantage, were surely surveilling their diplomatic suite.
As Susan studied the list of long, impossible demands, Padmé said, “Perhaps you are familiar with this conundrum, where your negotiating partner approaches everything as a zero-sum game...”
Nodding her understanding of her friend’s clear instruction and new mission, Susan rose and swept out to talk again with the delegates – and reconnoiter with the spies they had embedded their – to learn what the Aqualish would want more than just making sure the Naboo didn’t win.
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Padmé’s blank expression as she slid the data reader over to Susan made her immediately alert; it was horrifically impolite but their Aqualish hosts, looking for every advantage, were surely surveilling their diplomatic suite.
As Susan studied the list of long, impossible demands, Padmé said, “Perhaps you are familiar with this conundrum, where your negotiating partner approaches everything as a zero-sum game...”
Nodding her understanding of her friend’s clear instruction and new mission, Susan rose and swept out to talk again with the delegates – and reconnoiter with the spies they had embedded their – to learn what the Aqualish would want more than just making sure the Naboo didn’t win.