Just after his sigh, she gives one of her own. It's messy. It's always messy. But she didn't come here for a shouting match. She won't leave satisfied, no. She knows that by now. But she will defend her position. Calmly.

"By intending to accept it, I am acting to defend the mortals who live there. If you attempt to take it from the fae, they will act, and it will be bloody. A quiet exchange, however, will cause no bloodshed. My agreement with Ms Redbright was that we would not attack those boroughs under her protection. 'Original owners' or not, Croydon falls outside of that, and I am making no attack."