Please, like Callista had lived this long and accrued this much power by hanging around full of pissed off powerful people.

A long silence before she admitted, "I'll be down a lot longer than that."

But let's just zoom right past that and to why she called! "But anyway, I was hoping that you'd message your brothers and pass along my apologies that I didn't get a chance to say goodbye? I mean, it's okay if they didn't notice or whatever, but I just don't want them to think I was rude."