Matthew was making his way towards Shepherd barracks, he'd decided to go around into the town first however then make up to the old part of the castle. He was constantly moving through alleys and only talking to the few shopkeepers he trusted. Collecting his book orders, he'd put out of several volume's on heroes of old like Marth, Mark, and Ike. It was mostly for a study he had been doing before hand, however now they would be useful for him to learn to lead soldiers in the field.

As he made his way down an alley, when saw a rather strange girl trying to push a table back into the alley. The back legs snapped and she fell face first, then went the back legs. It left her laying on the ground covering her face, poor girl could be hurt. Matthew jogged down the alley, carefully. "Miss are you alright? Are you injured?" He asked in worried tone, offering her a hand up. That's when he notices the time, past midday, he'd taken to long getting these books! Saya could already be waiting for him at the barracks, it would be rude to keep the Exalt waiting, worse so if you were supposed to be her family. "I'm really sorry miss, but I'm very late reporting to Shepherds barracks!" He said before running off in a hurry, he hoped he wasn't to late he didn't need a repeat of Saya's birthday party.

Out of breath the tactician managed to get there in just a few moments, what he saw surprised him. The place was being cleaned up some it seemed while a large group of people milled about. "Uuummm hello?" He said to the whole group in particular, wondering if they were bounty hunters or people who wanted to help. "I'm the Tactician put in charge of getting the Shepherd set up... Who are you all?" He asked carefully looking into the building some as he stood outside. If anyone had seen the wanted posters, well there was you perfect match to the description. He looked between them putting his weight on his back foot and his left hand on his sword hilt, his right hand held about six books clutched under his arm.

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Bern looked between what remained of his camp. "Plegia's forces countered attacked us. They trapped us into the town and began slaughter the healers then continued the rampage. The Raven Lord himself and the Queen of Bandits led the attack." He answered Chloetta. "They teleported their soldiers in used dark mages to attack our normal units and sent barbarians and mercenaries after monks and healers." He said walking towards his tent. 

"Genna let everyone know we are packing up camp and reuniting with the bulk of our forces along the border. With our plan in Ylisse about to be complete we can take our best troops and the and good number of the recruits back into Plegia. It's time we killed the Raven Lord before he causes us anymore trouble and pain." With that Genna put up a sign and instruct other to help move the wounded or ready them for transport. 

Bern sat in his tent writing up his next speech, cursing about the Grima loving dogs and their stupid sand filled backwards country. He hated it here, just because he was native didn't mean he wanted to stay here. In truth when they returned they would attack the Raven Lord and then go south. He Chloetta one of the commander with the force in Ylisse, perhaps she could bring down the Heretic champion and make Bern's life easier. With that little tactician around it would only undermine the Church's power. Lady Tiki may have named him that but the whole backing of the bishops and cardinals were behind the Crusade and how could they be wrong? He scoffed chuckling to himself knowing that if he could just make sure Plegia fell easily then he could probably receive a sainthood.

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Sules had wandered out from the town, mostly bored with the corpse looting and giving his ravens a chance to eat before he continued. He danced a little, bored until he saw someone walking towards the town a new friend! Or someone to murder violently! Both were of equal joy. He skipped towards the man Sules swung his arms like a school as he did humming until he neared the man. "Hello mister! What's your name and what are you doing here?" He asked as one of his ravens landed on his shoulder. "I'm Sules, this is Pinky he's actually the smartest of the Ravens I own but he's kind of a grumpy gus." Smiled the Dark mage as he extend a covered hand to Guillame. "So are you just passing through on your way to Ylisse or are looking for somewhere to stay Plegia? Cause if you keep going the way you are now you'll reach the border." He finished now waiting for the man to reply, he silently wondered what his screams sounded like compared to his voice. No, he couldn't waste time on random wanders, black magic torture was current reserved for any who survived he and Vera's attack.