Nari shakes her head, placing a hand heavy with that desired reassurance on Fern's shoulder. "No, we're not," she says. It's not just for Fern's benefit that she says so, although she doesn't look at either of the men. "Not if they don't come after us. As much as any of us might want to, it would just make more trouble, and most of it for elves."

It was always mostly for elves.

"But we do need to do... something." That said, she's at a loss. For all that she'd sent to them, Nahariel isn't a leader. Now she does look at Sorrel. After all, he's her First now.