If the House has no involvement - so much the better, and Nuala will be glad of it. The stain of attempted genocides lingers still, blood on the hands of her people (and Nuada's war not yet as thwarted as she'd like); it tempers her anger, makes her think several steps ahead to what response will she be able to live with afterwards. If they are right, she will not martyr these people and solidify their cause. There are, there must be, other ways.

Her history has marked her well that she must think of that.

"I'm glad of that," she says, finally, both accepting his offer and genuinely pleased that it's made; that he allies himself to good sense is what she wants most. Their respective loyalties need not be one and the same to move in a direction that benefits both, and that - in essence - has been the driving force of their tentative alliance before. So they started as they meant to go on, and here, now, she is satisfied. "It is all that I would ask."

...in the broad sense.