Alwa might feel confident, not she.

She trembled now with joy at the thought that she--she the most helpless and useless of all of them--might save the lives of all.
But then another phase of the problem daunted her.

She might help Jaimihr go.

He might escape unobserved with her aid.

But then?
What then?
What would the Rangars do to her?
Had she sufficient courage to face that?
It was not fear now that swept over her so much as wonder at herself.