Kij felt the Illithid infiltrate her mind, and felt as he spoke through her. The sensation was... strange, like a numbness that spread throughout her mind. At first she tensed up and felt the two of them briefly jostle for control of body, but as she gave over she found it to be less difficult to let him talk through her. Trust the humans to overreact. 

Morro slowly sank back down into the wood of her chair, and looked down at her now unappetising plate of food. It was long cold. The stillness of the room now concerned her, and she scanned the room for signs of her companions. Alarm bells rung at the back of her mind when she didn't catch sight of them. Where were her soldiers, and why were they taking so long? With difficulty, she cast her worries from her mind and turned back to the... problem at hand. The knight nodded in agreement, acknowledging the wise choice of question, then asked her own. "And why have they sent you. and only you, to help?"