Faolan nods. He does understand. He understands what she's asking of him, he understands why she is, and he understands perhaps something of everything she is not saying to him too. Of where this could lead, depending on how it goes. And what it means for her, what it means for him. What it would mean for everyone, to have a direct channel to Hillingdon in the Night Council, when Hillingdon have been notoriously separate for all this time. Does he have a choice in it? Not at all. But he supposes it's better her choice than what some of the clan leaders in Hillingdon might put him up to.

"I will keep you informed," he says. Because it is the truth, for better or for worse. He swore an oath, after all.