Daylen tilts his head at that, debating. Is a soldier still a bad soldier, if they are abiding by their own rules? If they are leaderless here, and only doing what is common sense to them? In a place with no apparent law? It is... complicated. He hesitates, trying to process whatever Thranduil is implying.

"You wish to make the pirates fall back? Chase them away from civilian areas?" he clarifies, glancing up as they reach the gardens then back around at Thranduil. "You hope, then, they will leave? Give up on us as too difficult a prize to win?"