they will not protect you the way that they should

Safrin

Safrin appears, dappled in starlight with an unreadable expression on her face. "You were so adamant about keeping the ascended from being able to enter the heart of the Greatwood...what failings and shortcomings could have prevented you from so important a task?" Perhaps it's rhetorical, but the way Safrin's head tilts softly to the side suggests that she'd be willing to hear Alina's reasons, should there be any she wishes to expand on.

Glancing at what has been brought, the goddess pauses for a moment. "A hybrid, a mermaid, a fae, an accepted, and an ascended..." She frowns. "Not an abandoned? an attuned? a demigod?"

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!