You continue to press all the right emo-buttons. That is; the debate (behind Sanders' back) covered all the pros and cons that might plausibly arise during a real war-time conference. As far as Gabby's lying, though? It was probably more of a half-truth. And, here's why I think so.

Gabby's first assumption, about the interview, was some kind of initiation by gang-rape. Which makes me surmise that she _was_ found by a scouting party of Elves (probably after the same thing the Phoenixes are). And, seeing her under-dressed,...?

Well, let's just say that her threat to the Phoenixes had probably already been carried out in fact. ;-)