"The answer," Mar proclaimed at raidspeak volume, "is diplomacy!"

He raised a hand to forestall the inevitable complaints. "Hear me out! Our true enemy is the Burning Legion! If we attack Sin'thalas, we are only making another enemy out of them! We can't afford to do that without making an effort to reconcile with them! If diplomacy fails, we can always try a rescue by stealth or force, but we need to try to make friends before we make enemies!

"I'll volunteer to go talk to them directly," he continued, "because no one really minds if I get captured or killed for the efforts, and that'll be a good sign of their intent. However, we need to immediately get the other flights behind this plan! If they act, the Sin'thalas elves will most likely view their actions as speaking for all of us and condemn us all accordingly!"