Need grumbles wordlessly, resistant but knowing a good part of her resistance is based on things that don't apply. This isn't an organized band currently living with a group of civilians, or it can't operate like one, anyway. This is more of a direction than 'back towards the fair in the hopes of finding someone friendly instead of those unfriendlies that chased us here'. Grudgingly she pushes past herself enough to say, :You're not wrong.:

She doesn't quite say 'I told you they were people' when Raistlin addresses the gnome; she'd said it offhandedly enough to allow it to be taken to mean their shape and not personhood, plus I told you so is never helpful. But she does send him a private note of exasperation, a :They wear clothes, child.:

It's a fair question though. Several of the others have connected with the feral cats living in the cavern, creatures they're more familiar with. The gnomes are enigmatic and actively interested in what people are carrying with them - negative feelings towards them are much more common.