She would have to convince Fanilly to let her beat the idea of 'listening to your seniors' into some of these knights' heads when they got back to Candaeln; the impetuous idiots had started a completely unnecessary fight and were already going for lethal blows when there was any doubt to the contrary. The mercenary's revealed name raised the possibility of its being truth: though she didn't know of the girl in any detail, there hadn't been reports of her attacking Thaln's soldiers before, even whilst operating [i]in[/i] Thaln.

Protecting Fanilly wasn't a high priority right now, since the mercenary was using the blunted end--though most might find that a hard detail to pick up in the heat of battle. It might even work as some good practice for the captain. This freed Tyaethe up to do something that looked like it might be more important in this chaos of a battle: protect the mercenaries from the other [i]knights.[/i] And the fastest way to do that would be to shut down the battle entirely.

Now, the two ways to do that would be to either knock out anyone that let their guard slip for a second and wait for everyone to wake up again or to prove that they didn't have a reason to be fighting in the first place. 

The paladin dismounted. Walking through the field of battle, she kept away from the places the knights had already engaged the mercenary band and kept heading towards the fort's doors. Short of the half-giant ignoring his attackers to focus all his attention on Tyaethe, she wasn't going to stop even if injured. Then, knowing that they were already open, she shoved them wider as hard as possible.