"Okay. I promise." If this is what it takes, then she can promise not to go down with the camp. It's easy to make this one, anyway--it was true before he demanded it of her. If the camp falls, she's finding him, and they're leaving. There are caves, right? They'll live in a cave if they have to. Or they'll walk to Vorbarr Sultana, the way little Negri walked here. Nothing says they have to die with the horses.

She stands there a breath longer, wide-eyed and waiting for...what, she's not sure, but she is. And then she tries again to start them walking.