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The best indicator of all stays your response however, when the she-elf stows her blade, to grab your nightgown aside on the bed and hold it to you. Though she maintains her grip of you... if anything, out of concern you sense and ready to help you should you need it... but finally she doesn't pose a danger to your child, with her dagger away. Of course she could still attack you though surely you'd act in defense, but she can't simply just stab you in the belly and end it all, which is what you'd been on edge for.
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">"Nooo... no! This is a mistake! How are we even going to leave with her? Are you going to carry her, as we scale back down?"</span></span>
The other elf expresses his doubts, but he doesn't seem as inclined to hostility now that his partner in crime is pursuing alternate means with you. Though you're not sure what they came here for, it doesn't seem to be so simple as just an assassination attempt. Though they were clearly poised and ready for that, there seems to be enough leeway in their methods or plan to allow for capturing you. Though the feasibility of that, the logistics of kidnapping you from the castle seem impossible even to you, the dark elves seem to at least be considering that option now... charmed as they are by you.
Of course you don't intend to go with them anyway, all of this was simply a hope that you could reduce the danger of the situation, and to an extent you have managed that... having swayed the she-elf at least to sympathy. You are not a fool though, of course she is still a threat to you, and the other two elves remain on edge... the male leaning on the fence it seems, but the beastly one hardly any different from before, still looking as ready to attack as a predator.
But you've swayed the situation, tipped things just a little and for just a moment, so that it isn't so one-sided against you. With some difficulty at being held by the she-elf, you dress yourself all the while planning and considering in your head how you may act, as the dark elves deliberate on their own next course of action. Believing that they have caught you, and will have your cooperation in leaving. Whether rightly or wrongly, your captor assumes that out of concern for your child you will cooperate, when of course concern for your child is the greatest danger and motivation in this situation.
