By hasn't been invited to speak, and so he nearly bites his tongue. He doesn't want to be thrown out of the tent, after all. (Or maybe he does - maybe this is an act of sabotage of his own good intentions, because he's too cowardly to bear to hear the fleshy sounds of a fist on a face, to see the way Galeni's body jerks when he's struck. Thank you for your service to the Imperium.) But he thinks his perspective might give him a bit more understanding of Galeni - Galeni the collaborator, the coolly confident head of Komarran affairs, who firmly keeps the peace between his home and her conquerors. Smart man like Galeni has to know that this might well end with his execution - might well draw it out, holding onto information to delay that execution. By...needs to open in his head the possibility of another path.

"And don't assume the answer will damn you. There are quite a few uses in this camp for well-trained men. No waste here."

Come on. Talk. Collaborate, Galeni, you're good at that, you damned Komarran. I can't tell them you have ImpSec training, but you can come up with another plausible story. Just convince him you can be trusted...