Jack shoves his way to the front. "Forget the rhetoric," Kurma doesn't respond to it.

"The crystallization wave is going to start moving again, in a manner of days. I suspected that you already knew this, but since we had absolutely no sign that the Empire was going to do anything about it, we chose to risk coming here."

"We have an offer to relocate as many people as possible to the new Christmas Village in the North, and to Aqures Ixen, itself." Jack's mouth forms a line, and he remembers what Ramza was advising him. This conflict is important to them. "The Christmas thing was about as good an excuse of the political overture that we could come up with for you to possibly take our aid. Since we are very limited on time."