Individuals ultimately had a choice of whether or not they wanted to help the half-orcs out. Jim had been pretty gung ho about going out to the cave, and had found a lot of other like-minded individuals, as she had expected. There are a lot of people here who feel like they need to be heroes.

"I would have been quite devastated if I had been there when they chose not to break the quarantine and I knew that Jim would die." She sighs. "I might have tried to break it myself."