[ Yeah, she'll go along with this. She sounds a lot calmer than her text belies, mostly because she is, for the moment. ]

Hey. Listen, you seem like a reasonable monster. You all don't have time or resources, fine. Give us better objectives. You want the king alive? You want us to work with goblins more? Tell us, or otherwise, everyone's going to do whatever they want to do, like they already did.

And while we're here, appoint some leadership. I don't care who it is. Pick someone, pick anyone, so your recruits have somewhere to turn when it comes time to make decisions like who lives and dies.