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“What about Lord Garithos?” You asked him.
“I dislike talking about others behind their backs, but with him… I will make an exception.” Foecourt said to you and continued. “Ever since he came here nearly a week ago, he has been acting like he owns the place. No sense of decorum.”
His choice of words did concern you, but you needed a small confirmation in what Foecourt really meant with that.
“What do you mean like he owns the place?” You asked him.
“He is a Lord, a Colonel at charge of Regional Defenders. That means he can order us around, like he was above all of us.” Foecourt said and shook his head. “You saw how he called yokels.”
Foecourt was clearly annoyed with him regarding how he carried himself. An experience not lost to you either.
"The severity of the insult he had delivered to your people is not lost on me, he had done the same thing to me and mine during a different military council. The man thinks himself better than everyone. So far I have seen very little to the contrary of that.” You said back to him. “Or heard.”
Your tone when you said that did very little to hide your disdain towards Garithos and that you knew more than what you had already said.
“Heard?” Foecourt asked you.
“I have intelligence, rumours from Southshore.” You started to say and thought for a moment if you should continue, but in the end chose to do so. “The talk was that Garithos plans to replace Blackmoore with himself.”
Eyes of Foecourt opened all wide when you said that.
“It doesn’t really need to be said, but this information shall not leave the two of us.” You said back to him and continued. “I am not going to openly oppose him with this information revealed to all, but I am going to make sure that he doesn’t get the chance to act on his plans. So if there is a chance that what I have heard is incorrect, I won’t look like a gigantic fool openly proclaiming that.”
Foecourt paced around the battlement for a moment as you looked at him be all concerned about what he had just heard.
“Sir Foecourt, I am asking for your support. You have pull amongst the knights and soldiers here in Durnholde which would be immensely helpful.” You said to him.
“What are you planning?” He asked.
“I will take the command of the campaign, the honour and renown of defeating the gnolls will be mine and Durnholde only. It would be foolish for him to act against a victor like me.” You said to Foecourt. “The most honour available will be in the vanguard, that is where I will be.”
That was as steady a plan as one can be. As center as one could be. You had thought about taking one of the flanks, another place of honour would be the right flank traditionally, but you weren’t fighting a traditional enemy.
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