[h3]Jordan Forthey[/h3]

	Quintin seemed to have no objections to moving to the station, either, though he also seemed to prefer waiting for the baroness before switching locations. 
	"Very well then," the half-palanter concurred, briefly touching hand above her bosom and nodding her head in a slight bow. "I shall await you there." 
	And just like that, she was off, not running, but effortlessly gliding, only the fluttering of her tunic and the passing of objects betraying that she was doing so at a pace that surpassed that of any regular walking speed. 

	"Unless any of those the healers could take a look at have recovered enough or someone else has arrived, then maybe two men, and one of whom had at least a bandaged arm," Jordan surmised, rubbing the bridge of nose ... and suppressing the sudden urge to try and dust his hair of any errant pieces of pottery, which would probably have been quite the stark contrast to the overall gravity of the situation. He can do that later. 
	He hadn't gotten quite as close look as Sir Yanin or Madara, but there hadn't exactly been many people who could be fit to come, even disregarding the sheer mental and physical fatigue those still standing likely experienced. They hadn't ran to the alarm ringing along with the rest of them, after all, and realistically, they might have been barely standing by sheer willpower. [i]"Please, no more,[/i]" one of them had pleaded when they first entered. 
	His master might also point out how leaving the town with literally just a dozen farmers with pitchforks to defend it might be on the risky side. [i]The whole damn mission was on the risky side.[/i] One could only hope against hope that no more lives would be lost just to save a single one. 

	Nabi shook her head in response to his query, but just as quickly switched over to clarifying a couple points in what Quintin had just said. [i]Wouldn't that be better done when everyone was gathered around a table, so to speak?[/i] Maybe, maybe not. 
	"We might need a way to contact one another that wouldn't alert the bandits, at least, then. As you said, lines of sight might be a little unreliable at times." 

	It didn't escape the squire's attention that the young nightwalker seemed a bit dejected when asked to fetch the others rather than stay part of the discussion. Well,[i] someone[/i] had to, and out of all the options there... In the end, he had just about enough time to glance first at Madara's disappearing back and then at Quintin before offering an apologetic shrug in the brief moment preceding the nightwalker, too, turning and disappearing off, though in the opposite direction from the half-palanter. 
	[color=000000]"Could not someone else have done that? We could really use as much help as we can get..."[/color]
	"Do what, ask the others to come join us?" Jordan was momentarily confused, and perhaps a little flustered. "They [i]are[/i] are our help, and, well..."

	Out of the nine people there, Jordan wasn't exactly going to ask the healer not do her thing, Tedwyn was [i]definitely[/i] out of the question, and maybe he shouldn't preferably order around Lady Bor's people, either... Not to mention that while Quintin and ... Cole, apparently, might have had the stomach for it - and even Cole looked a bit put off by the happenings -, then the two people who were clearly just house-help ... might need a bit process what the insides of the building looked like. 
	[i]Could you kindly ask your lady and the rest of the lot there to hurry up, and maybe try to ignore the dismembered corpses littering the floor for a bit while you are at it?[/i] Yeah, that ... might have been a touch [i]more[/i] awkward. Jaelnec at least had the somewhat questionable advantage of already knowing precisely what had ensued in there. Oh, and he was also one of the three people remaining on site who actually knew where the others were without further description. 
	So it had been between him, Nabi and Jaelnec in any case - and while his master was as decked out as could be, Jordan himself would probably need a bit to actually properly prepare before setting off, and even if he had nothing more to ask from Quintin, then he should probably at least try to not delay the others later on. And Nabi was asking questions, so she probably wanted to hear the answers... Jaelnec was the [i]completely logical[/i] option. 

	"Faster to ask someone who already knows what's going on inside." He supposed that was the main takeaway, and sighed. "I might need to swap out a bit out of my equipment and fill out the missing parts before we go, at least. Today is just one of those 'a bit of a mess' days."  
	A bit louder, aimed at Quintin, he stated, "Can't imagine Lady Bor would be for long, in any case; the others were mostly finished from what we could tell."
	For a moment more he lingered, seeing if anyone had something to add before he followed the healer.