The General Blackthorn gave his daughter a short look, before following after the Queen, and dragging the rest of the Blackthorn soldiers out along with him. They closed the door quietly behind them. One would never have thought that they were the rescuers with the courtesy that they showed.
No one dared to say anything immediately, though a good few of them wanted to. They waited until they could hear the footsteps retreating away from the door of Oliver's mansion, and then three of them spoke at once.
"What was it that—" Nila began to say.
"You bloody bastard, I'll fricken—" Greeves said.
"A General, Oliver, what the hell—" Judas tried to say.
They tried to valiantly speak over each other, until they seemed to realize as one that they couldn't be heard. Then, after glaring each other down, Greeves and Judas reluctantly allowed Nila to go first.
