Thanks you! And things will improve, definitely, as in my noodling comment to herself_nyc, above. Their communication is a thing of resolution-through-conflict, always, so this part... yeah. This is the conflict. : )

Couldn't have a girl save folks, could you? Horrors!

The old fairy tales really were a bit one-sided on that front. I sort of prefer the Xena version of history, in which the larger-than-life women were there, even if we don't hear about them.