"Given the attitude your compatriots have toward you, I imagine handing yourself over would invite far worse consequences than not doing so."

He didn't need to say 'or they'd have done it already'.

He felt another pang of sympathy for Devin. Did he have friends back home? Did he have comrades he could trust who, in turn, trusted him? What little he'd heard, it didn't sound like it. It seemed more like Devin got to live only because he was less danger out of the hands of a maniac.

"Do you know her underlying motivation? Clearly she wants to start some kind of war, but people do not go to war for no reason."