There's protectiveness, and if you take that up a few levels then it's Herian. They are adults; they are not glass. They are fragile all the same. They have been attacked from all sides and abused, and no one has protected them. Perhaps she protects too much, but if that is the case then she holds no regrets.

"I have only heard rumour of what transpired at Redcliffe." She watches Avery for a moment, considering. It was no small thing, after all, and Redcliffe was a town that seemed to have endured much over the years. "How do you find the people here?"