[h3]Nabisisstra Rhe'anyl Qelarn[/h3]

	Nabi shrugged as Jaelnec refused her offer, before glancing over to Yanin after his question and nodding in response, leaning on her bowstave slightly and taking another puff from her pipe. 
	[color=000000]"Yes. But I do not know whether the rest of you are capable of it, which is why I was concerned."[/color]

	She looked to the map that had been drawn and thought for a moment. [color=000000]"Ideally, anyone 'left standing' should be of sufficiently few number to allow us to strike swiftly at them to protect the healer..."[/color] Nabi stopped for a moment. [color=000000]"If he's even still breathing."[/color]

[h3]Sir Yanin Glade[/h3]

	"Maybe three, in the technical sense - if we take Caleb to be his own group. Assuming he can circumnavigate the buildings and approach them from the fields' side,"  Yanin traced out a path leading to the toolshed on the map, "wait in the toolshed, gather energy, and inform us how many and where we are dealing with - just one of us being informed telepathically should suffice. I suspect that fields recently fertile enough for crops should provide enough cover. Jordan? Quintin?"
	"I mean, I would be surprised if there weren't thistles, nettles, melilot, ragweed, willow-weed and other stuff taller than I am all over the place," Jordan shrugged.
 
	"Half an hour, hour later, the rest of us will make a move, divided, roughly, into two groups: those immune to Weriz - Sir Freagon, Deo'Irah, Lhirinthyl - I suspect Caleb won't be affected, either? - and everyone else, which, incidentally, also comprises at least five people with ranged weapons - myself, Lady Bor, Quintin, Jordan and Nabi.
	We can take out any one patrol group without much danger to ourselves, though we might need a mark right prior to notify Caleb to start covering for us. I assume any of Deo'Irah's acquainted angels could reach out to him? After that, we would have about two minutes to - continuously masked from everyone inside the buildings or just stepping out by Caleb's illusion magic - move to take out everyone outside, the second group lagging behind far enough to stay out of the aura of fear and providing ranged cover to Weris' group. Lady bor, I assume, would remain overlooking from outside. If Caleb can both maintain illusion and help with incapacitating those outside, I am not going to object - though it might best reserve a surprise for anyone trying to exit the barn's main doors after we make an entrance. Assuming both main structures are equally populated and we have no further clues about Bren's location, Weris' group takes the farmhouse, the rest take the barn entering from the side. If we know where Bren is, that's where Deo'Irah, and by extension, Kinder, should head. 
	If Caleb is discovered at any point during the first stage ... I reckon the best we can do is follow up close to original plan, and improvise." He looked at the dark one. "I don't believe anyone else can see through magical darkness, no - but it would depend on how much control you have over it. At the minimum, I'd hope to cast our opponents in darkness so that even if we can't see them, they can't at least shoot at us from range. If you can manipulate it to move as a front ahead of us, or flood a single room and dismiss it at will, even better.
	In the end, there is only so much we can plan ahead with the information at our disposal - and we might yet be running out of time."