Pointing out that what he knew was going to be vastly different wouldn't help, Wu realized. He'd only dig himself in deeper with any comment there at all, and in the end he'd still be helping. "She is correct," Wu agreed at Edan instead of directly speaking to Carmel. "It anchors the practitioner, gives them something firmly in their control when nothing else is. In this place? That is priceless."
It made him wonder just how long there was before someone finally tried to marshal the lot of them together, and be somewhat surprised it hadn't happened yet. If Carmel's classes came together, that'd be a start; there were few things that fostered community as fast as learning to fight together, Wu had found. "If I am helping," he warned Edan with a small note of humor, "Come prepared to work hard."