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Although your ankh may be the key of course, it more than yourself has the appropriate power. But unless you actually gift it to Keely, which you are reluctant to do after losing it before, you're not sure how you could make use of it. Perhaps marking her body with the symbol itself? A brand or a scar? It's a ghastly idea but if it gets the job done... before trying this though you'd want to reach civilization first. Otherwise you can only imagine if you were to create an ankh yourself, or perhaps even ventured to the underworld to find and steal another, but how risky that would be...
<span class="mu-b">"You think the long-ears care about how any of us are born? I've seen them kill infants in mother's arms. There's no forgiving with these... inhumans."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"I always heard the stories, said she lived out of town and helped the tall ones when they came around. How we know she isn't leading us to a trap?"</span>
Although you can have temporarily remedied Keely's issue, the other that you cannot seem to overcome no matter how hard you try, is the animosity towards Zeni. Montez and Jean are the most outspoken about it, the both of them personally having the most experience with the ongoing war. The things they've seen and experienced, only because of you and your presence have they not quietly killed the half-elf one of these nights.
<span class="mu-b">"You came to us little goddess, you are an arrival to this land. We humans are not long for this world and every day more of us are killed by her kind. Times before maybe we could all get along, but this is a matter of survival."</span>
Lord Darry by contrast, tries to approach it from a more logical matter, echoing the others who aren't so bitter and biased on the subject as Montez or Jean. The young lord recognizes the preferable moral choice, and such values of one's deeds and behavior rather than how they were born. But as far as he is concerned, morals and values go out the window when survival of the species is threatened. You recognize the suffering, and the generational trauma of these fellow humans, at their escape to this new world. It's not something you can relate to by your nature, but you certainly feel for them. Part of you wonders if maybe they aren't right anyway, Gods know that the elves would probably not entertain any of this conversation in regards to any of your group.
But your nature is what it is, and as a goddess you cannot be anything else. Love is what you are, even for the likes of Zeni who is half-human.
<span class="mu-g">"Spent my life alone, no different now. Thought maybe could be different now, stupid... stupid."</span>
Unfortunately, and frustratingly for you, it seems on this matter you can't really solve the problem. At least not within the relatively short time frame of travel to Bexley, or without wielding your divinity. The divisions and animosity runs too deeply for these mortals, from generations of hardship, for to you just be able to mediate and smooth things over.
