action;

( A small band, but there are people here who have destroyed whole armies, rescued cities by themselves. People who have been fighting for as long as they've had the ability to throw a punch or pick up a sword.

So, yes, they'll try. And Kate? Right now, she'll let thoughts circulate in her mind, lapsing into silence until — with no seeming explanation — she snorts and shakes her head. )

... I was wrong about you, back then.

( So very wrong. And if you'd told the her who first arrived in Hadriel that she'd eventually be sitting here, wanting to make sure Hope and the others all made it out alive, she'd have told you to pull the other one. )