Of course we're not going to stop paying that blue wench. I don't consider what we pay her as "protection" money; do you? It seems more like a tax. And while I dislike her with my every being...

[He takes a deep breath. It irritates him, but it's the truth.]

...it is what we owe her as tenants. I will not begrudge her what is rightfully hers.

But when it comes to the safety of us as a whole, I think it's already been proven that we are on our own. She locked us up in the same district with those blue monsters and I don't doubt she'll leave us to the wolves the next time there's an attack.