[ She struggles between keeping up her lady like ignorance of these things and her rather too involved curiosity. Biting her lip before she decides rather promptly, to hell with it. Somethings are more important. ]

What of these missions I hear of? Have there been any attacks on the city directly? It seems not very much like a siege though we are shut in the strangest way. They told me all of it very quickly, and I was in such a state of shock ... [ that so very little of it had sunk in at all. ]