"People will be surprised, emotional," she allows. "But it shouldn't change much for us."

She soaks up his touch for a moment. "We can't do much about the slave trade," she says quietly, voice tight with regret. "WE may be largely immune to attacks from humans, but OUR humans aren't. If we were to start attacking the slavers as ourselves, other nations would take it as an act of war, and the three of us can only be in so many places at any given time."