[Trish does have to admit that it reflects poorly on the Adamant's upper echelon to expect such a thing of the hatchlings if they had made their request without knowing that some of their new guests are far from the "average person". Which is likely, actually. It's definitely a more complicated situation than she's letting herself believe, enough she can't fault this guy for seeming cold about it.

If they had sent a bunch of hatchlings to die, that would change her tune real quick...but no one had perished. She's sure the network would have exploded if they had. The Adamant is lucky in that regard.

Bruno mentioning some of these people having powers resurfaces at the back of her mind.]

Well, that "errand" when we first arrived was a rescue mission, wasn't it? Then there are two possibilities.

[She looks away from him to consider her nails, the polish on them already chipping away.]

Either they wanted to test our usefulness...or they were desperate. I personally wouldn't entrust the lives of people I cared about to strangers, so I'm willing to bet on the latter.

[But if this man has reason to believe otherwise, she won't argue. This situation sucks all around.]