As the council member mentioned Elsir Vale, a look of panic: "ELSIR VALE?! Oh god....I hope my mother is okay....Councilmen, please tell me they're okay!?"
She then stayed calm as she felt it was unprofessional to panic. As the councilmen was talking about the mission, Althea noticed that he mentioned that one of the hostages is an acolyte of Ioun, which is what made her accept the mission: "I accept the mission and if while I'm there, I find some of your treasure, I'll grab them and give them back to you."
Althea then paused for a moment as she had a question of her own: "Sir, if I may, do you have any information on the Red Hand and their leader, Sinruth, I believe we should know about it. See, the reason we captured those two goblins as you may have read from the report was to interrogate them. But, if you know who they are and what their intentions are, it may save us the hassle and possibly we could prevent a war. So, please, what do you know about them?"