By the time that the spy that contacted her through the hivemind was in range to warn her about the impending assault from a Company of several hundred Thestrals, she had at most a few minutes to organize a prompt relocation of the entire Hive. She had to take advantage of every second to make an entire society vanish without a trace while securing as many sources of food — the most precious resource of the Hive — as she could and unfortunately, she couldn’t see a way to do so while also moving the human.