[ Katsa considers this. She has no interest in mothering the children, as she told Alice, but nor is she neglectful nor unaware of their safety. While she might have less to worry about on her own time, Katsa's not so clueless. She's formed a close bond with at least one child half her age before, and had to keep her alive on their own together for months.

But all that said, Katsa's experience with children is low outside her lessons with older Monsean girls. ]

...Do you know how to hunt, Alice? Or wish to learn something like tacking a horse or finding your way in a forest, if you'll be with us anyway?