Oh. I interpreted that it was the classic case of infighting delaying the actual solution enough that the issue finally came to meet them. If they hadn’t been pedantic towards the leader, he could have warned them of the threat and potentially avoided it.
Took me a while too
Explanation for anyone wondering
Eugene “broke the ice” by asking a question, which is wordplay on breaking the ice below them to let the orca through
Idk that seems like a stretch
Oh. I interpreted that it was the classic case of infighting delaying the actual solution enough that the issue finally came to meet them. If they hadn’t been pedantic towards the leader, he could have warned them of the threat and potentially avoided it.
Er, yea, the “break the ice” interpretation seems to be lacking. This is what I’d go with.