As soon as Vanyel has been in contact with their Tayledras allies, and received confirmation that Haven was destroyed and is now occupied by an army carrying Vkandis' standard, Vanyel calls an urgent strategy meeting.
Eighteen months ago, they won the war with Melkor, and Vanyel thought it was over. Now there's going to be another goddamned war, and Vanyel's pointless, petty thought is that it's really very rude of reality to spring this on them now. It's easier to dwell on this irritation than on the fact that nearly everyone he's ever known, including - almost certainly - his fourteen-year-old daughter, is dead.
"I realize this is absolutely horrendous timing on multiple levels, but - we can't stay here and we can't risk Vinyamar either. We need to evacuate, now. To - I mean, obviously to somewhere that no one who was in Haven would know about. But where we can do Gates, because I think we're going to need that flexibility. We need to contact Leareth's organization and figure out what they know. ...We can't take Leareth with us. I was thinking we could evacuate noncombatants to Valinor, it's going to be somewhat safer, but -"