"Are the final groups away?"
"Yes mistress."
"About time. The sun will rise soon."
"We know, mistress."
"Is the King awake?"
"Not yet. Shall we wake him?"
… "Give him another half an hour and then wake him. We'll need all of his strength during the day if we're to even have a chance of holding the walls."
"As you think best my lady. But I must tell you that unless he's able to raise at least another thousand skeletons or outside aid comes, we will die today and they will take the city."
"Tell me something I don't know. You have your orders. Have the skeletons sail as fast as the winds will carry them. We'll need them in the coming battle."
"As I have already instructed."
"Thank you. I forget how logical your kind are."
"And I sometimes forget how emotional your kind are."
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