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Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, the need to sneak out never comes to be needed. About another week, and the war comes to find you.
<span class="mu-s">"Hold the gates! Hold 'em!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Remember the infiltrators! Keep the guards to their duties, we must defend without them!"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Anyone who can't carry a spear or a bow, have them ready with water buckets!"</span>
In these last few weeks, the improved fighting capability of the troops has not gone unnoticed by the enemy. One foggy morning Eindward is jolted awake violently by screams, war horns, and fire. Having run out of minor, outlying settlements to pillage and raze, an assembled force of the enemy are making their attack now on this last holdout. The town is a panic of people between fleeing civilians and mustering military, and already injured and dead are being brought in from the encampments outside the walls which were hit first.
It's difficult for you to get a clear sense of what is going on, but by the sound of things a combined force of elves and northmen are attempting a joint attack from land and sea. You don't expect you can make much difference at the harbor, but surely you can save the most lives where the most people (and killing) are gathered; the camps outside the walls and gates.
<span class="mu-b">"Please my Lady, I must see you to safety."</span>
<span class="mu-r">"No! I won't abandon those people to be killed! Not when I can stop it!"</span>
By his duty Sir Tyne attempts to take you to safety or at least dissuade you from getting involved, but his objection can't stand up to your determination. So you try to navigate your way through the chaos, the streets swarming with people rushing both to and from the attack, panic heavy in the air from some of the buildings nearest the wall starting to burn from flaming enemy arrows. The hardest thing of all for you is to reject those in need, the injured and the dying, some of whom even directly seek you out for help. All your will and strength to deny them in this dangerous time, but you know that you can save all the more lives if you can stop this conflict altogether.
