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And the ogres and other wildlife that joined it?

you mean the orges that were attacking us because of the forest spirit? what about them? kinda hard to reason with an ogre when it's coming at you.

I didn't say anything about reasoning with them. I'm just worried about you. It didn't sound like nothing.

i said it was nothing to worry about. there was a problem, we took care of it, it's not a problem anymore.

Then what's wrong?

nothing? why do you think something's wrong?

Because you sound really defensive.

you're the one who sounds no, i know what this is. you shut me out and it bothered me. sorry. i wasn't trying to be defensive.

[ congrats she was wholly unprepared for honesty. ]

I wasn't trying to shut you out. I'm just used to taking care of things myself.

yeah, i get that. but you don't have to ... do everything alone all the time, you know? we're a team. you don't have to listen to me, but i've got your back if you need me. even all the way over here.

[ what rey hears: 'we're a team as long as you conform to this narrow range of acceptable behavior i have for you.' ]

You're right.

I'm not worried about getting around once we're past the wall. It's the wall that's the trouble. They have guards posted, and no apparent rotation. I've been watching for hours.

[all he wanted was for her not to torture ppl??????]

what? that's crazy. they can't just have one set of guards posted the whole time. either they have long shifts or they're just decoys or something.

No, they're rotating. But not with any regularity. Sometimes they'll rotate to a lesser number, sometimes to more. Sometimes the same people will come back. It's like there's no schedule.

so they're disorganized. you could probably use that.

Yeah? How do you figure? The way I see it, unpredictability in this way is a mark in their favor.

dunno, i was mostly thinking about how you could catch a break if they switched out fewer people or took awhile to switch. or they're so disorganized you could just walk up pretending to be one of them. but i guess you're right

Pretending to be them might at least get me up close. I've got armor bearing the mountain clan's sigil. Might help.

Good thinking.

[ that can get her up close enough to ... mind control them ... : ) ]