"Yes." Just a touch dry, and in full agreement.

"I was ... utterly convinced they would be coming to take back Whitestone. I spent days rallying the Chamber, the Pale Guard, the Riflemen ... That was when Kynan asked to join my personal guard. Said that he'd made a promise to help protect me. I told him he was welcome, and went right on trying to organize the place for a siege."

She sighs wearily. "Not that it did any good. They didn't want Whitestone. They wanted me."