Veragwen had her hand on her hilt when some random person popped out. She could see he didn't want to fight, though, so she let it drop. She looked at Mara and Caelyn as they both laid into him, "To be fair, I don't think anything else could have stopped that scorpion. What would you have him do? Come rushing himself and die by the scorpion since it's as unkillable to him as it was to anybody else? Also, I don't think deception was his purpose either. That was literally all the details he had on the monster and it needed to be put down quickly before it caused more deaths than it did. A call to arms was the best he could do. People are dead because that thing was unstoppable, not because the King sent lacking aid. It would've been nice if he sent more, but If he had they would just be dead right now, too."

She turned to Armond, "Anyway, yes that's the gist of what happened, my lord. The monster is miraculously slain, but the village of Seles is no more than ashes." she said sadly. "The scorpion let out a dark mist that turned anyone to ash that breathed even a little of it."