And there it is. The gates open for them. The gatekeepers look confused by Elspeth and consider putting the gates back up.

Elspeth is just following Aredhel's lead here.

Aredhel is lying as aggressively as possible considering the person she's lying about has no private thoughts. I found her in the forest. My husband asked the guards to bring her in. She's not dangerous, she's barely out of childhood, I don't know why she's that warm but it's hardly going to burn you, I promised her I'd show her the armory. By all means call Eol down here, he'd be delighted to see us.

They get warily waved in.

They're about a hundred meters past the gates when someone says, "wait, stop, our lord doesn't know anything about this!"

Elspeth, guards out, now. 

Have a few thousand years' worth of assorted memories.

Armory's on the left, let's go.

Elspeth runs for it. Hi swords. Any swords want to leave with her?

One of the swords introduces itself as Anguirel and will totally accompany her.

Elspeth swipes it - what else should she take in Aredhel's opinion?

Armor won't fit her and is probably going to be too much of a hassle, she can grab a bow if she thinks she'd be supernaturally fast at learning to use it, those weapons over there are poisoned be careful, there's more guards at the door can Elspeth drop them -

She can. She grabs a bow, it's not going to encumber her too much and she's probably got some archery in here - anything else -?

Let's go get my son.

She looks at the guards on the way out and stabs two.

Elspeth is not going to eat them this is not the time and she's got a perfect record and she will get squirrels or something on the way out.

Uh. Hadn't actually picked up on that until now - I got that your mother prohibited eating people but not that it was super tempting -

It's not for me. If I was a full vampire it'd be worse.

But most of the people who might take over the world are?

Yes, but they're expected to control themselves these days. Most of them would need to hold their breaths around exposed blood, though I'm not sure if they'd react the same to Elf blood as human.

Well. I guess we're mostly also terrible and have even less excuse. 

Up the stairs. Her son looks three or so. Lomion, baby, be quiet, we're leaving, please be quiet...

Well, three if he were a human, couple months if he were a half-vampire. It's important, Elspeth adds to the child helpfully, because he will believe her.

And now they're carrying him. She knows the ways out that'll have the fewest guards - three here, two there - there's someone around this corridor that needs to be definitely dead -

Elspeth blasts as-needed.

She tries to make sure Lomion mostly doesn't see people dying violently. Falling over is okay. It has occurred to her that people Elspeth blasts may be beyond even Mandos, may be erased truly irrevocably, but she didn't mention this to Elspeth because it's not as if there's a convenient alternative. 

Eol's waiting at the bottom of the stairs. 

Him, she says.

Him Elspeth has fewer qualms about.

And stab. 

And more guards. And the horses. Let's go.

Elspeth is still faster than a horse - My sleep schedule will adapt to the time zone eventually and then I will fall asleep almost unavoidably for a period of time every day. Can't stay on a horse easily asleep. I think we take one horse and you'll have to hold me on it if I crash while we're still in here.

Gotcha. The baby sleeps too. We might be out of here in a day, if I get lucky.