If he wasn't so upset that the one is beyond his help and another needs his help right now and yet he can't stop, he might give Merrill a startled look at her revealing she knows about the Calling and its end. As it is, he's far more focused on fishing one of his healing potions out of his pouch so he can gently help the seriously injured Warden to drink it.
"Not only do we need to know what you know, we need someone to get the injured out of here, as carefully as possible. The demon army is going to spread out. I need numbers on that as precise as possible. And if it's higher than..." Fuck everything. How many is too many to fight, too many before Wardens and them are overrun and the village is at risk? Two had killed one, possibly two, injured too more, and kept several at bay. "If the number is higher than a hundred I'm going to need assistance in dealing with it."
They can't take a hundred. They can't contain a hundred. They probably can't even deal with fifty, but if he's going to contemplate a makeshift attempt at blowing a fortress up to collapse it on a demon army, raining debris down on people who are actually, completely innocent and uninvolved, it's going to be for a definite everything-is-lost scenario. It isn't something he wants to do whatsoever, but if it's the only way to deal with a demon army, what else is he supposed to do? He'll need the locations of the latrines, and for someone to get a certain mineral their armory is bound to have and add it to the latrines, and then... then he will probably seal his fate in a great many people's minds, but at least a bloody demon army won't be spreading across the continent.
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"Not only do we need to know what you know, we need someone to get the injured out of here, as carefully as possible. The demon army is going to spread out. I need numbers on that as precise as possible. And if it's higher than..." Fuck everything. How many is too many to fight, too many before Wardens and them are overrun and the village is at risk? Two had killed one, possibly two, injured too more, and kept several at bay. "If the number is higher than a hundred I'm going to need assistance in dealing with it."
They can't take a hundred. They can't contain a hundred. They probably can't even deal with fifty, but if he's going to contemplate a makeshift attempt at blowing a fortress up to collapse it on a demon army, raining debris down on people who are actually, completely innocent and uninvolved, it's going to be for a definite everything-is-lost scenario. It isn't something he wants to do whatsoever, but if it's the only way to deal with a demon army, what else is he supposed to do? He'll need the locations of the latrines, and for someone to get a certain mineral their armory is bound to have and add it to the latrines, and then... then he will probably seal his fate in a great many people's minds, but at least a bloody demon army won't be spreading across the continent.