>>5378280>>5378300>>5378355>Though you do intend to take the fight to the enemy, you'd want to regroup and gather more strength. Surely after this effort, more Gaelans will be willing to join your little war sortie now?You know that this Namadan force came from some settlement of their own not far away, Cailinn explains how every now and then such groups of the invaders will foray out to check on the nearby Gaelan clans and demand tribute, same as they demand taxes from the people they rule over within their own territory. After shattering this group however and sending them into retreat, you suspect that wherever they came from will go unguarded for a short while, and ripe for you to attack.
Not knowing what the enemy might be capable of however, you'll forgo a followup assault on them in favor of taking account of the strength you have and gathering more after your victory. Plus, you could do with a rest after all that effort and action, still quite exhausted after these past days' effort without a good sleep. Yes, you'll settle for what you've achieved now, to better achieve more later.
That, and since you banished the Namadan lord you ate to the divine realm within you, you haven't actually eaten anything to sate your empty stomach!
<span class="mu-s">"The others want to know, should we follow after the Southmen? They'll be headed back to their castle to-"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"No, no... revel in the victory here, don't let this triumph against the invaders go to waste! Look at the bounty they've left for us. I'd like to see a celebration, show me some appropriate ritual you have..."</span>
Of course there's not many of your followers here to begin with, but Cailinn is a shamaness herself so is more than capable of organizing some ritual as the situation calls for. Already the humans were in high spirits for your success so it doesn't take much to rile them up to a victory ceremony. And as you find soon enough, if there's one thing the Gaelans excel at, it is wild celebration! With a huge fire stoked in the center of the encampment, even with just some twenty-odd people or so it's more than enough for them to get up to all manner of celebratory song and dance. Between the emotional high of battle and taking to drink from what the Namadans left behind, your followers chant and sing and dance around the fire like things possessed, feeling like a crowd ten times their size. Even just watching in amusement at the wild little humans, from a divine sense you can feel their souls brimming with energy and promise. Their spiritual bond is very real, as they can so easily coordinate in their ritualistic revelry that Cailinn hardly needs to lead them in anything, rather her role as shamaness appears to just be encouraging and enlivening them along while they naturally handle the rest.
