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Tianara grinned a bit, seeming to regain some of her spirits. "Of course you didn't know," she teased lightly. "Sorry only told you five times. I like the cove, but I assume I'll be expected to make a place among the humans eventually." As the elevator opened on the ground floor, she said easily, "For now, we have to make sure there are places." Her gaze grew serious for a moment. "For everyone."

Glancing back at Allen when he outlined his idea, she nodded slowly. "That's...sensible," she replied, seeming pleased by the plan. "I doubt they'll be back yet - there are a lot of clans to speak to, more yet if they need to speak to the Siren clans as well, and those are just the major ones. There are little offshoots everywhere that will take more tracking down. But we can always look and see."

Happy to have a plan, she headed towards the main doors of the building, to get it set in motion as soon as possible.

Tianara chuckled. "Well, of course you are, but I can hardly make a place in the cove. The cove is yours," she said lightly. "And there's not much I can do there. To make a place of my own, I'd have to build a life. I would want a family." She stuck her tongue out. "I can't get that at the cove." When he grew serious, she did, too. "The beaches would be best, but how many are there that aren't easily accessed? It could ruin everything if a fighter stumbled across us at the wrong time."

She turned her attention to Allen, nodding slowly. "That's possible, too," she murmured. "I don't think they'd send anyone else - they'd want to keep it to just us for as long as possible. But they did go off in pairs, so it's possible one would continue on while the other came back. Well, let's go see."

Tianara listened carefully to his idea, nodding slowly as she listened. "How many know about this place?" she inquired. "We would have to have a way for the ocean children to get there - and those who didn't have time to get their families away or had nowhere to send them would bring them along. So we have to be sure that there's room for children." Continuing along these lines, she nodded. "We could probably manage to pass that on to the merfolk, and we could help them as much as we could."

She nodded at last, looking tired. "That's a good last-ditch place to hide, Joshua, but I don't want it to come to that. The entire point of weeding out the ocean children is so that they can help us stop or divert the war. If we're driven back to the caves, that means it's over. That the chained creature and his allies have won. But it's a good place if we need it. We'll keep it in mind."

Tianara's face closed slightly at his words, although they were merely confirmation of her own. "We should stock them," she said, hating how it sounded but knowing it was true. "In that event. Food, weaponry. Most of us know how to catch or find and cook food of our own, but I can't guarantee that all the ocean children will remember it after years in the human world. We need to think ahead if we're going to make that a hideaway."

She shook her head at last as they began to pass through the forested area that separated the town from their cove. "Do you know anywhere we could find things to stock it with? It would have to be stuff that can handle time in the caves. That won't get moldy or dirty or soft or otherwise inedible or unuseable while it's down there." The question seemed to be directed at both Joshua and Allen. "We should have asked Rhiannon," she murmured. "She would have ideas about stuff like that - she's lived among humans more than any of us, really."

Tianara nodded slowly. "All right," she said softly. "There's a start, then. We should explore those caves again someday soon, Joshua. See what could be used for storerooms, where the children could go, things like that. They'd have to be cool, of course, and dry - we'd need to store wood for fires, if we were going to cook or whatever." She was in semi-planning mode. "Herbs would be nice, especially since most of us use a lot of the kind that grow near the ocean for flavourings. We're also," she added with a smile, "salt fans. But we could probably get that from the water if we boiled it down to separate it."

She lifted a brow, however, when Joshua began to talk about weaponry. "I wouldn't go for swords," she said authoritatively. "They take years of training to use right, and the ones made these days are very flimsy, meant for show. Guns would be better - most of us at least have an idea of how to use one. Crossbows these days also aren't made for durability, and there's the extra fact that we would have to take very good care of the strings - keeping them in caves wouldn't be good for them. I suggest leaving out medieval weapons entirely."