Altima had followed Valen and the others into the throne room to speak with the king, but she kept her opinions to herself. Though she did answer when she was spoken to, she didn't offer any commentary on the subject matter but she could easily see that it was going badly for them because the elves were dumbasses on the subject.  When it was all said and done, Ally was more than disappointed with them and was visibly smoldering, an ability unique to her, when she got mad she was literally on fire and her temper was visible in the amounts of smoke or haze she produced.  Once they were outside of the throne room she seemed to explode some, looking  like a mirage in the desert with the amount of heat haze she had going.  "That guy is an idiot" she muttered, only loud enough for the others or the party to hear her.<br/><br/>"He wants to think that he's safe from what's going to happen if he stays hidden in the forest. Yeah what happens when the Dark King swarms in, lights it all on fire and slaughters everything under them so they have no infrastructure and no soldiers because they got caught with their pants down.  She wanted to add something lewd to it but thought better of making mention of it at least until they were out of the castle.  But once they were, a short amount of time because they had to made some degree of haste to get out again and find the amulet; she spoke up.  "Valen, this was a total waste of time and effort it seems." she finally said.  "They're going to get their asses kicked then start crying for help when it's all their fault for not being ready beforehand when they had fair warning." she said.<br/><br/>Altima would continue to pour explanations that were getting tangled up in each other iin her frustration with the situation as a whole.  Eventually she'd calm down once they were out into the city again. "So where do we go from here?" she asked them.  "We still have something to do even though it looks like we're not going to get any help at all from our<i>gracious</i>hosts." she said, clearly being sarcastic.