'I don't understand,' he said. Except he did. Why would he expect anything less from this world, which seemed to be becoming more vicious by the minute. Phineas gets that same feeling in the pit of his body that he often does while he's trying to sleep; the feeling of being on the losing side of a war.
'Could...could we not try to talk to them? To show them?' He does not what the Order was looking for. He didn't want to get involved.