I don't know about you, but I don't feel particularly eager to risk my life for yet another cause I have no real interest in, and this time around nobody's here to make me. Seems as good an invitation as any to ignore the war that's supposedly going on, at least so far as I'm able.

[It was impossible to entirely, of course, but he was going to do his best. No reason not to, really.]

See that, do you? You'd be surprised how many don't. But I expect most of them have low expectations. You're right that I'm not human. Or an elf, for that matter, though I'm guessing that's what you are. I am a djinni.