[ She shook her head. Unfortunately, her energy and enthusiasm had completely deflated. Hopefully it'd come back after a night's rest. ]

You don't understand... I have no authority here. No powers. I am just the same as any other human. Less so, perhaps, as my inexperience with the surface world keeps showing. To persist in failure isn't a strength, it is foolishness.

[ It's not that she wants to give up... But she needs to acknowledge when she does things wrong. Working hard means nothing if your work is counterproductive. Her dreams of the surface world were collapsing one after the other. ]

It doesn't have to be you. I'll ask a knight or someone to look at this business.