"That would be a rather direct way of testing the waters when it comes to cooperative efforts to achieve a common goal."
The Hexican president was still trying to recover from the shock. She couldn't believe she had said what she did, and at the same time as the one who in her opinion had an uncomfortable amount of legs. She could feel her heart pounding like crazy inside her chest as her mind tried to process the implications of what she, no they just asked.
She wasn't expecting a diplomatic-sounding response from Zeph. It wasn't a rejection of the notion or an acceptance of it either. I was one of those answers that could be interpreted in many ways that politicians loved to give when the person asking wanted a firm answer.