"Ha, you haven't done a particularly good job at foolishing me, Commander," Oliver said, turning his eyes back to the slope where Karstly in the rest were just beginning to move on. "Still, I am unsure whether we will have a choice. Even for Karstly, this mountain is too well fortified to simply walk through. We've already seen how the men struggled with just the first set of barricades, how are they going to manage through the rest of them? There won't be a single man left. That's not the sort of victory we can afford. We need enough soldiers to man this fort, once we capture it."
Apparently heedless of the concerns of his men, Karstly put a foot to his horse, and leisurely clopped his way to the front of his men, retaking the vanguard for himself, after the Blackthorn soldiers had finished paving the road for him.
"Your soldiers will need to rest, will they not, Gordry? Send them towards the back. We will have Colonel Nolan take your place," Karstly said.
