Planning for war!

[urain]

Urain appeared in the palace armed with twin knifes at his belt and a simple white robe. He knelt before Kinether and spoke "Urain Paladan of Eis at your disposal"

[Kinether]

Kinether was sitting near a simple wooden table with a map of the Plains spread over it, with head half-leaning on his right palm. It seemed he awaked from his thoughts when Urain entered. He slightly nodded on the paladin and rose from the chair.

"No need to kneel. Anyway... I know you seemed to be interested in this, and maybe kinda wanting to help, if Im right... see this."

He pointed on the map and looked down on it, showing the places by hand.

"I thought it would be useful to gather the people from other villages, even most of them went with me to Quoa... there are still villages that seems to not noticed that something is happening. And still we need to know where else Urgor spread its influence...

Well Nerai is here, Urgor here... and Quoa there. I think there will be no problems with Quoa and its allies. Rather with the area around Urgor. I thought that it would be the best to send several smaller squads to all the villages we can reach now, and in case of some defiance or if they will reveal themselves as and Urgor ally, we would call more soldiers there.

But still theres a problem with that force from over the sea that came here, probably. We dont know where they can appear and we cant afford to loose any men in a random encounter of smaller partol with them. We will need as many warriors as possible if we want to stand against Urgor...

What do you think?"

[urain]

He looked at the map, considering he had no troop information of the unseen enemy from Eis e decided a plan would be needed to think of the worst eventuality. He pointed to the three nearest Villages outside Nerais allies and spoke "I say 1000 men to all three of these positions, they will put down any defiance and drive out any who will not follow us. From there we can scout closer to Urgor and determine what were up against whilst keeping the rest of our army camped near the three villages to respond to any attacks and be able to move into any gaps within a matter of days."
He stopped for a moment in thought then dismissed the idea as he stood awaiting a comment on his plan...

[Kinether]

"Yes, it maybe would be good, but look on this. Gotar is one of the three villages you talked about. And Im not sure if it is a good idea trying to drive them off until-"

Suddenly someone blew the door open, running inside. It was a small girl from the Plains, probably a messenger...

"Sir!" she stopped in front of the two "Im sorry if Im disturbing you, but i got an urgent message from Nerxis!"

"Wait a moment, it seems that somethings up already..." Kinether nodded on Urain and turned to her "What is it?"

"Actually Im carrying message from Flaion, from a messenger from Nerxis... he said that the village has spotted strange army that landed on the Western Shores, and passed somewhere to the way to Urgor!"

Kinether looked back on Urain. "So it is true."

"Sir, they say they got far better weapons than we have!"

"Iron ones?"

"Thats it."

"Allright... you can go. Tell everyone in Flaion to prepare for arrival of Nerai´s guards. This time we will hold the city."

"Got it." With that she turned back and run out of the palace, not even closing the doors behind her.

Kinether sighted and went to close the door. "I see that our messengers are still lively enough... anyway..." he returned to the table "maybe sending more than a messenger with two or three guards isnt needed for the villages around Quoa and to the south. As you said, we should concentrate on the ones between us and urgor, maybe make some kind of life barrier between our allies, urgor and Gotar. Question is if it would be wise to attack as first, regarding the advantage of Urgor. If we crush Gotar, they will reply for sure... first need everyone from the Plains gathered."

[urain]

He nodded is agreement "We should station troops in camps and villages bordering Urgor and its allies, small units so it looks more like simple garrisons but behind them maybe split the army into three parts and station them near to villages we control, when we are ready we can make a push into Gotar and from their besiege Urgor"
He sighed "My only worry is these invaders, we dont know their numbers and when we hit Gotar there is every chance a force twice our number could strike back"

[Kinether]

"Well I guess thats all... the force that was supposed to guard Quoa untill the wall in there will be finished should arriver till this night. Then we can move forward..."

His sight stopped on the window. Urgorian mechants were coming, going to sell some of their iron resources.

"Ow I see... I think we got several things to talk about with them."

He turned to leave, once more looking on Urain "If you wish, tomorrow morning in front of the main gate."

With that he left to the Nerai marketplace.

[Kinether]

When he entered the room, the darkenss of night was already spread around it. He lighted a candle by simple move of fingers on his right hand and sat near the window, tired.

"Was kinda busy day..." he thought Yet we didnt move anywhere. Only... moved back. he looked down on the part of the city that suffered the most damage from the fire. There were lights of the torches of the people who were trying to find some things that were left from their houses.

"What about Fenrai? If I remember right, he used to live in that part of the city... mmmh... I guess he should know that if need something... he would already shown here." he turned from the window.

"Maybe time to get some sleep, finally..." he yawned.