"You're quite welcome, and you may come again if you wish, but for now, we have a war to avert" Sable says to Ness magic-telepathically, and then says to Bellerophon "Is there any way that this could be resolved without bloodshed? Any sort of agreement that could solve this? After all, while one of your villages may have been destroyed, if you attack, all that will happen is that lives will be lost. Your men can just as easily turn into 'the monsters that butchered that small, innocent village' begetting yet more conflict. Back in my world, there has been war for as long as I have been a consciousness, and while my home still stands, countless of the attackers are now dead, and their families grow to hate s even more, making a vicious cycle of assaults. It's too late for Castlewood, but not too late for you."