> You've sent a few "hey, do you want to team up" messages, and I asked, "well, who are you?" and you answered in terms that made me go, "Eh, ok. Why exactly would we team?"

I don't remember you going 'eh, ok'. If you had, I would probably say 'because both the characters are, for their own reasons,against the king's tyranny, with Emily thinking he might be a Keeper in disguise'.