"They think they can get away with this. We have to prove them wrong."
The alienage is a shell. A mob in the night, so they were told, armed with torches and blades and baseless fear of people who had harmed no one. Homes reduced to ash, the Vhenadhal fallen. Children .with soot-streaked faces, with terror in their eyes, and Alanari here to late to prevent it.
One more failure, but no longer would they allow guilt to keep them from acting. They turn from where they and their brother handed out what food they’d brought - dried fruits and meat, mostly, things that would not spoil - to find Shianni, looking as enraged and grief-stricken as they felt.
“I can’t give you justice. Not yet. But if you - all of you - leave here with me now, I can protect you.”