>>5635913“Even if we get a key piece of information at the last second, we can still adjust,” you decide. “But we still need to get that information in the first place.”
“How do we do that?” Sabela asks you curiously. “As queen I assume you do not like the idea of committing more soldiers to this effort, knowing what happened to the last group?”
You nod. “Yeah. I had been hoping that the enemy wouldn’t notice them, or wouldn’t see them as a target. Clearly that’s not the case.”
“Your solution is to go in person,” Zoe… not so much “accuses” you as much as she states the facts as she assumes them to be. She’s seen the pattern of course, so it’s a good assumption.
“I hadn’t decided yet,” you admit. “I’m open to alternatives.”
“We’ll go,” Helen declares. “Send a strong team of four.”
“That makes sense,” Salem answers. “Take us with you - me, Solaris, Sabela.”
“And no regular warriors?” Helen frowns.
Laura’s eyes narrow. “Explain your reasoning, please.”
“We are the experts on awakened beings,” Salem observes, “and we have fewer… <span class="mu-i">compunctions</span>.”
[Good use of the word compunctions,] Serana signs, rolling her eyes slightly.
“That’s cute,” Salem smirks. “You’re cute. But I’m <span class="mu-i">right</span> and you know it.”
“I am concerned that we are simply shifting the moral burden yet again,” Helen admits. “They are here to kill us, not Hazaris, not awakened beings.”
“You don’t know that,” Sabela insists, her tone quiet but calm and authoritative. Then she glances at you. “Let us help you, Noel.”
>I’ll take a mixed team of six - three pairs of one warrior and one awakened being each.>I agree with my mother and Salem this time. Now isn’t a good time to get hung up on morals.>Helen’s point may be purely emotional, but she does have a point. This is about us, we should solve it.>Other?