Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-8182065-20170509041231/@comment-25924729-20170630061830

She froze up at Garnet's words, blinking once in disbelief, then Vale stormed across the room to a window.

Glancing out, she found that the streets were indeed empty. No people in sight, not even corpses. The dry wind rustled through the sand, and a dog barked in the distance, but there were no human voices. Unlike the noisy tavern earlier, it was silent and unnerving.

"We were fools," Vale growled, once the full scale of the operation sank in. She felt angry, cursing the enemy's cunning and herself for playing right into their trap.

Forcing herself to calm down, Vale took a few deep breaths and begin to think. Rather than raging over her incompetence, the group needed clear instructions and a plan.

Time was of the essence now prisoners were involved, every second wasted meant the villagers' chances of survival dropped. But that didn't mean they could simply charge in and fight, no... the enemy was too smart and deadly. If anything, this mistake only showed they had to proceed with caution.