"Ilúvatar." Why it was that she thought Ilúvatar might.. understand too, she did not know. He probably would not. But she felt that she owed it to him to at least make the suggestion before she went through with it. Was she hoping he'd convince her otherwise? When she knew Eibhear would if she asked him.. Why did she want Ilúvatar to? Did she? Everything here messed with her mind. Between the mind flayers and Talmus. The mist and the darkness. The trees that gew from the ceiling instead of the ground and the unnatural light they produced. All of it caused her as much alarm as it did confusion. A terrible mix of emotions for someone who was always so set to a path. So at peace with what she had. Or really, if she was honest with herself, she was just prepared for that path. Not at peace with it, who could find peace in the solitary life of religion. A complete peace.
Even the best Temple Mothers were not completely at peace. Sometimes they spoke of sacrifice, and sometimes they spoke of the gifts that they'd been given to have this life. But there was no complete peace. Not even for the most high, before the Goddess, the Champion and his Priestess. They had no peace. Except that they would be one with their maker soon enough. A peace that all Elves had if they looked for it. Some further down the road and some simply at the beginning of it. But the end was the same and the peace it gave was.. it could be good, but it was not everything.
"They will not stop, will they? A volley of arrows will do little to keep them down, don't you think?" To say all hope was lost.. was not correct. She hoped she could convince him that it was a poor thought so that she might convince him of another way. "They did not seem to stop before. When we tried that. But something did work to stop them before." She flattened her hands against her sides, knowing full well that she had been a reason that they stopped before. That they had made it into the mines in the first place. She'd displaced that mist and watched their backs.
She had to do that now. There was no other way that she could see.