Alaedra remains standing, not warming at all. Drow paranoia, perhaps, or possibly simple drow arrogance.<br/><br/>"Very well, I'll indulge you for now. I'm not a ruler, but I am from a prosperous merchant family. I have too many older sisters, however, too many to make even a serious play at taking over, so I chose to become a mercenary instead. Yes, I have many subordinates, slaves and just soldiers, but not many drow slaves and the gender of non-drow slaves is obviously unimportant; they're only labour and fodder."