I think they took me more seriously after the trial finished.

[The 'trial'. A joke. There's no need to dwell on that when Oria is here. He doesn't want to linger on that at all. So he nuzzles into Oria's neck a little more]

They showed me how the trial became a farce. How to predict the outcomes, things like that. The technology they were working on to surpass people's natural limits...the ideas they had. [Similar to his father's, yet different a] I understood a little better, after.