If they can successfully block off the treehouse... Then any Assistants trying to quell the riot would have a lot harder time of it. They'd have more time to try to force the Nurse to respond.

Elle nods along as he talks, the picture of someone just attentively listening to her conversation partner. And when he's done, she nods again, firmly, more purposefully -- agreeing with him. But she doesn't reply right away, head tilted to one side, thinking.

"It's hard to say how it'd go... What kind of response it'd get." Her hands move now, gesturing vaguely, but upwards. What kind of response it'd get from the Nurse, she means. "And, in the end... It'd be about getting the chance to talk. Right? The chance to change things?"