[Right, they'd connected after a large group gathering before, hadn't they... And Siffrin had said something very similar then, too.]

I got used to only being able to rely on one person, so I prefer the company of small groups.

[She sips her wine, no longer feeling much concern about needing to silver test or sniff or suspiciously meet out food and drink she gets from others. What would they do to her?]

You killed him, you know. Or you incapacitated him, at least; a human would have died. For about ten seconds. The castle shook.