They have. Tell me, if I help you up to where they cannot get, will you promise me that you won't try and send me down as a sacrifice for them?

[her tone is half teasing, half serious, and the expression she wears doesn't entirely clear up the matter of which she truly means. but the question is one that she intends to follow through on - these things were relentless, and she can't fault someone for being jumpy.]