Trust me, they are terrifying. [And it's the look on his face that confirms that even knowing what's coming he's definitely, definitely not prepared to see them again.] And I know there's a couple of the Seelie who know. It's a long story involving networks and magic and there's a reason we wanted to talk to everybody privately. Walls have ears or whatever.

I don't want them to win but I definitely don't want the dwarves taking their shards either. It's why I'm kinda hoping we're all prepared for these things.

Scouts though. I'll talk to Katsa and maybe some of the other barons, too, to see if we can borrow some of their men to patrol areas and start locking in locations to evacuate everybody to. Which speaking of...how many do you still have under your control anyway? [Not necessarily for scouting, but in general, he means.]