Ithi'Ka looks back at Sam with a casual reticence.  "It will be this way because I don't have to kill them all.  I can elude them."  She shrugs.  "If<i>that</i>becomes necessary, then Mark and Kasumi can kill them all when you bolster them with your impressive power."  She smirks in a gesture that is as close to 'friendly' as the drow seems to show publicly.<br/><br/>She listens to the voices in her mind, fighting back the urge to shut off her thoughts or to feel enraged.  No... this is good.  This is her team, not...<i>something else...</i><br/><br/>In her mind, she answers Mark curtly.  *Because his howling is just show.  We won at the tower because of him, as well as you.  Any less than we have here now, and we would have failed.*<br/><br/>At this point, she does not know if he heard her or not, despite his protest, so she merely locks eyes with Garrett and nods.  "Let's go."<br/><br/>