"Even if there's only a one-in-ten-thousand chance, I'll recall the fleet to Quel'Thalas. Quel'Thalas is my home. If my own home might catch fire, I have no reason to stay in someone else's house helping them put out theirs. I have to put out my own fire first," Yu Lin Bloodhawk said.
"If your guess is wrong, this single decision will wipe out everything thousands of soldiers in the Expeditionary Army have worked for. Don't you think your decision is terribly reckless? That the losses far outweigh the gains?" Lireesa Windrunner asked again.
"No, I don't!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "We owe the humans nothing, and they owe us nothing. We gain nothing by helping them and lose nothing by refusing, so there's no question of gains or losses."
Yu Lin Bloodhawk said, "A few words of praise or condemnation from them mean less to me than the itch of a mosquito bite."
"Is that how you view the alliance between elves and humans?" Lireesa Windrunner asked in surprise.
"Yes!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "To be honest, I really don't care what the humans think."
Lireesa Windrunner lowered her head in thought.
"How likely do you think this guess is to come true?" Lireesa Windrunner asked again.
"I couldn't be too sure before, but now I think there's at least a seventy percent chance," Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "The less our scouts can uncover, the more likely it seems to me."
"You're this confident in a guess with no basis?" Lireesa Windrunner asked, startled.
"That's right! So I hope you'll make some preparations. At the very least, you should move the family to Shalandis Isle for a while, so you won't be caught off guard and let the Windrunner family suffer terrible losses." Yu Lin Bloodhawk seized the opportunity to