- One month prior -
Since I made the suggestion of building this wall I have, every day, to attend various councils to further discuss its details in concrete.
One of the most critical ones to it would be Uma.
Like this, it goes on and on and on.
I feel like with Uma one should always discuss the worst possible outcome.
If you can still show benefits to your strategy, even in the face of failure, this is usually enough to convince her that there's no harm in following your advice.
Or maybe not.
Seriously, now she wants that I worked out the whole strategy?
This was all just a fixed idea of mine.
I don't really have a concept!
I'm not sure how helpful admitting we know so little is to our plan.
Lord Stormheart is the first to speak.
Brave man, I need to say, not being intimidated the slightest by the queen.
Fortunately, we have Diroen to translate.
Chera is too busy with her stuff to do so all the time.
"Regarding what we know from the past, the most likely direction would be that they start a full-scale siege. This might actually threaten even a fortified position of ours, as they are well-versed in this art and don't shy away from making the necessary effort to even the scales. If we let them be, we'll have to expect a rather bloody battle. One I'm sure we'd win, but hard-fought nonetheless." (St)
(U)
Sigh.
(E)
"If I may say so. I doubt the enemy is going to stop unless we at least once prove to them the futility of such an action." (St)
Oh damn!
You don't want to miff Uma through your behavior.
Even if Lord Stormheart in general seems very intent to get us into a battle with Koreso.
Therefore, I'm not sure how to take his word, or if I should speak in support of him.
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Yet then the king, Kieran Redora, signals that he'd like to speak, and Uma allows him to, as he maintains the polite etiquette.
A decisive strike?
Then why even build a defensive position if we still have to head out and fight them?
Most importantly, once we emerge, there's still going to be close-quarter fighting.
With all the bloodshed and losses this brings with it.
She feels like someone relaying something they once read.
Which probably refers to the chamber of knowledge.
At this, Uma becomes thoughtful for a moment and then pleasantly elated.
Ehm, what exactly is going on here?
Collapsing the surface?
What the heck?
(K)
Triggering?
Wait, this could only refer to...
Liseti at this just concurs.
This means that these two for real plan on exploding the underground.
But how would this affect... the... surface.
Oh damn!
So my opinion actually doesn't count!
Not like it would matter, given that I'm certainly outvoted on that matter.
It seems like everyone is confused, aside from the one responsible and a certain other someone.
(L)
Just who did this to this princess?!
The most terrifying is how simple the logic of this is.
No matter how deep the tunnels collapse, one way or the other the ground above will fill the cavity.
There has just to be enough gone below.
Once again, Liseti's pheromones convey a sense that she thought I'd figure this out by myself.
<...then we'd also have a bigger moat...> (E)
She's right.
This is smart.
Like, really smart.
There's no way I can convince them otherwise.