[He's not fazed by Dimitri's anger; if anything, he knows him well enough to have expected it.]

The Zenith Shardbearers are people, too. I won't pretend most of them are innocent, but I don't want to fight them unless I have to. If Yima's power to influence them comes from giving them their loved ones back, there might come a time where the best option to avoid bloodshed is to take that power away from her.

Of course, there are plenty of Meridians I wouldn't trust with hostages like that, so this is all just a hypothetical.