Faolan shrugs slightly, before commenting, "Well. It couldn't hurt anymore to try that then it could to start off under the assumption that we would need to fight her. At least we could cross it off if it didn't work?"

He frowns. "Sylvia Redbright is the leader of three of the factions within the city. Right now we would only want to address her as the head of the Institute, but she has the other two in her pocket, and I do not doubt that she would pull on whatever outside resources she could to save herself face if she needed to."

They'd better hope that a negotiation works, considering their own power levels at the moment, in other words.