Empty hands weren't always the consolation some would take them as. The Organization was proof enough of that. But for the time, Saïx would take chaos at his word. Most people would be less than inclined to bring weapons to a supposedly peaceful meaning, and he would console himself with that and the fact that his own weapon was nothing but a thought away.

As were reinforcements, for that matter, but this was hardly the sort of thing one announced at such a meeting.

"My name is unimportant," he answered. "I am merely a part of the whole; you may call me what you wish."