Samuel's concerns were important ones to bring up, but the questions he asked were ones that Jigano had spent the day mulling over, and he was ready for them. He gave his friend a faint smile, and tilted his head in acknowledgment of them even so. "If they simply wanted us dead, they had no reason to take prisoners in the first place," he pointed out to the first question. "Amalia hadn't been killed, there was no blood or sign of injury, but she had been silenced and taken off on a trail into the trees. One I wish I had followed at the time, before the forest shifted again..." He sighed, pushing back the what-ifs to torture himself with later. "I don't know why they'd keep prisoners, but I am certain that they took Amalia, and based on how the others disappeared, they were likely taken in the same fashion." He couldn't know what had happened to Caiside - beneath him one moment, gone the next - but there was magic aplenty in those woods, and no reason to think the Fae didn't have their own share of it.
"As for what they want... well. They don't know that we have no riches, do they? For that matter, we don't know what they consider riches. They may very well want information, however. How many people live here, what weapons and training we have, what sort of magic we can do... why the barrier came down when it did." He looked grimly to Sam, raising a brow. "We know so little about them. We don't know if they remember or have records of what happened before the Barrier was raised, or what they know of the Voice. No, I think there is quite a lot of incentive to keep them alive... though for how long, that I cannot say."
"As for what they want... well. They don't know that we have no riches, do they? For that matter, we don't know what they consider riches. They may very well want information, however. How many people live here, what weapons and training we have, what sort of magic we can do... why the barrier came down when it did." He looked grimly to Sam, raising a brow. "We know so little about them. We don't know if they remember or have records of what happened before the Barrier was raised, or what they know of the Voice. No, I think there is quite a lot of incentive to keep them alive... though for how long, that I cannot say."
