[Ovelia bows her head, letting her hair fall like a curtain around her face. She is as helpless in this world as she was in the last. Had she really expected circumstance to be different?]

No, you are correct. We are subject to their whims, no matter what their intentions may be.

[Her hands ball into fists.] But if my people are to serve that purpose, then I can still protect them...by following our hosts' orders.

[Perhas this man, who bears himself with the grace of a warrior, would prefer to fight, but that is not an option for Ovelia.]

Do they have your people as well?