...The locals treat us differently depending on which faction we're a part of and where we are at the time. So you could say they've chosen, though they're not the same as us.

[ And he gets it, to a degree. Some of those people are supposedly from past cycles of all this, though Yuri doesn't know how many or whether that's really true. ]

Alenroux here favors Meridian, I'd say. You accumulate discord if you're not staying in the associated city after harmonizing, but people can help you keep that under control.