[A wry little smile] Naturally. I should have seen it from the first, but the faeries spoke of a need so grave and of a spreading Darkness... [He can guess where her mind went. She couldn't, in good conscious, not investigate.]

And I found instead petty squabbles between courts, which have caused great damage to the world around them and to those they bring here through trickery or force. [Alright, she's probably doing them a disservice here. She's sure there's a better reason for the original conflict than she's finding, but from her perspective it certainly seems pointless.] There are children among our number, were you aware?