[center][h1][color=f26522]Carnatia de Valmont[/color][/h1][/center]

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[color=f26522]"Captain..."[/color] Carnatia started, carefully picking her words.

Was there some reason the Captain deliberately ignored her question of what exactly was their current objective? Given his grimace just now, he seemingly did not like the idea of going back to Dragon's Maw. Or perhaps there was something in Katwiz?

[color=f26522]"Going to Katwiz did not strike me as a sound option. Given it's a major town, and that as you said, has the possibility of being under the red stripes' control, picking Katwiz as our next destination seemed rather reckless. We have an injured person for one, which would be a liability should we end up in a fight. That said, you are also correct that looking around in the dark for where the Red Stripes' enemy may be also seems to be a fool's errand...So, why not attempt to go back to Dragon's Maw? As I've said, our mission was to bring back Paladin Thomas and his entourage. We found the group dead at their base camp, and now we have confirmation that Paladin Thomas was also dead. Why exactly are we remaining in this land rather than making our reports and awaiting further orders?"[/color]