Annabeth raised her head with a smile. [color=fff200]"I accept! You won't be disappointed m'lady. I will bring honor to us all."[/color] Annabeth stood up and nodded towards Crassius. Hopefully he had heard everything so Annabeth won't need to repeat herself. [color=fff200]"Though I still think we should send out some of our own warriors to strike the enemy commanders, I'm willing to follow your orders. Many of the townsfolk have already boarded up their homes and shops. While the docks are still full of merchant vessels ready to flee once the city is breech."[/color] But Annabeth didn't seem worried as she reported this information. In fact she cracked a small smile. [color=fff200]"The fact they haven't already fled tells me they're confident that the city will not fall. Even the peasants are joining the militia to defend their homes. Not all is lost yet, so long as you continue to have hope."[/color]

As Annabeth spoke to the two on the wall, the soldiers below were trying to rally together. Most of them knew they couldn't defeat the boar and were now trying to lure it away with horses carrying what few supplies they could scrounge together. If they could just get that beast out of here, they might be able to salvage this situation. Not helping however were those damned orcs. If they had just come into camp and started fighting, the soldiers could have easily surrounded and overwhelmed them. Instead they ran away, but the soldiers will take whatever advantage they could. As the monster was being drawn away a few crossbowmen took aim at Malakaus and his riders as they were fleeing. Even though it was nighttime the fires from their camp provided enough illumination for them to shoot a volley of arrows at the raiders.

Meanwhile putting out the flames was a knight carrying a staff. But he wasn't a normal knight but a royal knight. As he approached he lifted his staff towards the inferno and started knocking the flaming boxes and supplies into the mud and dirt, dousing the fire on them. The flames hardly seemed to bother him as he waded through the fires and killed the flames. Soon a soldier came up to him. "Commander Diclonii, we've manage to lure the boar away from the camp, but what should we do about the fires? Water isn't putting out the flames!" The armored knight looked down to the smaller soldier and scoffed. [b]"It's like you've never dealt with a little fire before. Use the sandbags to smother the fire! They're in one of the few supply tents those damned pigs haven't set fire to. And ready the catapults! I had hoped to minimize the damage to this fine city, but it looks like we don't have that option anymore. By the time tomorrow comes, I'll make sure this entire city is nothing but bones and ashes!"[/b]