Well, we're on our heels. Alethkar has fallen. Refugees have fled to a city in the mountains, abandoned by the knights that fought during the last desolation after they no longer had a need for it.

[She is struck, yet again, but the fact that she needs to get home.]

But we held them out of Thaylen City- the capital of another human nation. They can be fought off with swords and spears and stormlight, though they can't be killed permanently.