Sir Yanin Glade
Lady Bor confirmed the identities of the people she intended to bring along, and attempted to justify bringing the injured to battle. "[...], but everyone else's gonna be in more danger for each sword-arm we leave behind.”
"Not necessarily," asserted the human knight. "Mistakes risk others as much as yourself. There would also be no one left in town if we brought even the half-capable."
There was a particular reason why Yanin chose being a guard and investigator over being a soldier - further than just having to pick something when he was de facto getting evicted from his home before things would get even more foul. He was a fighter, not an executioner, and certainly not one to stand by and just let others get themselves killed. If you brought exhausted, injured, or vastly outclassed people... In the end, much of your attention and skill went to defending those weaker than you, and not being the most effective in dealing with your true objective.
Freagon seemed to agree. As stated, for the same approximate reasons as him.
The angel laughed when he asked if it could wear something else. So the robe did appear to be a part of it... perhaps. Made it easier for them to somewhat impersonate others. Good to know.
"And it takes no effort to maintain even in motion?" he inquired - quite impassionately for someone faced with a slightly oversized replica of oneself, though just as quickly specified, "Preferably something nondistinct. I stand out. Some might say one of me is more than enough for the world, and replicating particular individuals is generally seen as bad taste." The height would seemingly be harder to change. "It's mostly for people who see you at a glance. Not sure we have two or three hours. If anything, it might be beneficial to have you waiting long before we make a move."
Lady Bor deemed the exchange unnecessary, opting to rely on her influence to override people's usual inclinations.
"It's not your loyal townsfolk I am worried about," Yanin said, simply.
No one could know several hundred individuals adequately, and furthermore she had invited unknown elements to the now-compromised location. Who knew if any of those could perhaps indirectly result Lady Bor inexplicably not waking up one morning, several months later.
Far too few people in the world one could trust.
The male deigan shook his head when he inquired if he needed rest. So he had interpreted correctly, it would seem. He seemed to stumble over words. Was that typical of him? Fuck if he knew. Seemed coherent enough to try to come up with solutions, though practicality remained to be seen... Resting while they were moving? He didn't think there were roads in the direction the bandits were off to, though he had approached from a different direction, so he was going off of barely more than presumptions here. Did he intend someone to carry her the entire way? Take one of the animals hand have someone ride with her? You could technically sleep like that. Poorly.
"There's not much left to do here." Literally. The room didn't give off the same eerie sense of back off the makeshift morgue had - maybe because the only apparent sign of someone's demise was the blood on the ground, maybe it was the others, maybe it was the sunlight streaming in from the window ... but, in the end, he had gleaned all what was to learn from here. Business awaited elsewhere.
"Deo'Irah? What would you say? Are you and your companion forthcoming?" She could - should - want to clarify what the business with her companion before they go somewhere in the public. If it would last into battle might be especially relevant; he wouldn't exactly know how much or how long piaan would affect a deigan of Lhirinthyl's constitution.
Jordan Forthey
Quintin appeared to be measuring Nabi up before quite matter-of-factly shutting her proposition down, though admittedly, he also answered her questions. Oh, good, Sir Yanin and you might get along quite nicely. Or at least they seemed to speak much in the same way, based on the brief interaction. Well, admittedly, the knight wouldn't probably have taken the time to specify that he didn't doubt her skill, nor seemed taken aback by attention other than giving off an air of nondescript annoyance Jordan had long figured was just his normal state of being without any particular meaning to it.
It didn't appear the foreigner had anything to say in return - perhaps being taken aback by the apparent abruptness of Lady Bor's ranger. "We should have some paper at least, so I can get that prepared," the squire said - though he was mostly looking at Nabi to gauge her exact reaction.
Quintin reasserted why he wanted to linger, though... Why was he here, then, not going through the manor along with Lady Bor? Or sweeping the building personally? Had she ordered him to wait or did he expect trouble from the outside, from the bandits perhaps, much like had been their first thought when the bell rang? There was a brief pause during which Jordan tried to determine if Quintin was the kind of person to patiently wait outside just because he was told to, merely by looking at him.
"Two people have confirmed that there should be no soul left in the building other than those upstairs with my master and Lady Bor, at least - now that Tedwyn is out." No, that doesn't mean I'm summoning you. "But understandable. I'll go prepare what I can."
"I guess you should come, too ... will be easier to plan if the whole lot is around one table," he muttered to Nabi before half-walking, half-sprinting towards the station, detouring to their animals.
"Sorry to keep you waiting here," he muttered, patting his horse before placing the truncheon (should have probably have returned it before now, though it might have been from the station to begin with ... looked like one of those made to order for the Fadewatchers, anyway) and silver sword to ground, and going to rummage for the absent pieces of his armor.
Greaves, gauntlets, cuisses and a sallet helmet... He opted to start from the leg armor, though not before repeatedly running his hands over his face and through his hair.
"It really should be more common for knights to have two squires, would make it much more easier," he muttered as he twisted himself in an attempt to latch a strap, "Er, and there is a well across the street if you would like to make use of one." The same one Deo'Irah had earlier used to call forth the water she had brought to the manor.
Jordan had only fought living water and animated diningware, but the ghoul had managed to get some of its recently-human blood on Nabi, which ... well, coagulating blood didn't feel the most pleasant on one's skin, and it'd feel even less pleasant once it dried. He would know that from experience. It would probably be more than an hour before they'd need to fight something again.
He would leave the gauntlets and helmet for later - actually, he might have to put the latter on for a bit just because he would be running out of hands shortly (and the gods forbid he just walked back and forth multiple times). The bow, the arrows, the crossbow, the bolts - all of them and their quivers -, halberd, spear... Quill, ink, couple papers (those, like the halberd and bow, technically came from Sir Yanin's things, but Jordan was reasonably sure he wouldn't mind; managing things was his business as squire). Or actually, it would be easier to just bring Sir Yanin's entire backpack inside with the ammo and gauntlets stored within. Yes.
A few minutes later saw Jordan and Nabi entering the Fadewatcher station, Jordan carrying a pack and two full sets of weapons he carefully placed on and against one of the tables in the back before producing a paper, an ink bottle and a quill, taking off his helmet and locating his gauntlets (again).
There were a couple civilians here who hadn't been present before - should he ask them to leave, or? Should he sit down and wait? Tell the local Fadewatchers what had happened in the manor?
"I already informed the people here with the gist of what has been ensuing", the half-palanter noted from her position closer to the entrance, preoccupied with one of the injured Fadewatchers' hand and having apparently once more employed one of them to be the light source. Her long fingers served to hold several strands of some kind of barely visible thread, a vial and at the same time, two of what looked like curved needles and a small hook of some kind. She didn't even look up.
"Right. Is there anything else we should help with before the others arrive?" Simply standing around would be kind of useless, too.
Madara
Human hands didn't really have much muscle in them - indeed, there pretty much was only the one at the base of the thumb; the other fingers were moved solely by a delicate arrangement of tendons connecting to muscles in the lower arm. It made hands less bulky, more able to grip and fold ... and it also meant that if you got your fingers cut off, then she would need to slice open your palm to try and retrieve the corresponding tendons. They didn't just hang out like cut rope, they retracted back in their housings like startled eels.
Luckily, the locals had had enough sense and presence of mind to recover the poor man's absent fingers, so reconnecting them, one whitish bundle of sinew at a time in each, was what she was busying herself with. Though, since she was not a savage, not before numbing the man's entire hand (and half of his arm, and also paralyzing the appendage for an hour or two - albeit that was mostly incidental) and purging both the hand and the severed digits of whatever debris and decay might have tried to take hold to the best of her ability. And informing both her patient and the bystander she had roped into being the mobile lightsource that just perhaps, they shouldn't look too closely at what she was doing if they didn't have prior experience, lest they started feeling queasy.
She had gotten around to having largely attached the second, middle finger, briefly bending it between her own fingers to see if the tendons moved as they should, when Jordan and Nabi made an entrance. Other than her brief remark about filling the folks in about the gist of what had happened, barely seemed to notice the arrivals. Content with the progress of her work, she proceeded to close the skin in tiny, neat sutures.