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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3635178" data-attributes="member: 3448">“I agree, but where are we supposed to find that army?  Between our commitments in the south and the war with the barbarians to the east, we don’t have any forces to spare.”“What about the Order of the Falcon, your grace?”“We’ve committed them to dealing with the Abomination of Shur’s army as well.”“Could we hire more?”“I think we hired the entire Order already.  I suppose we could try to hire some of the other available Masque mercenary orders, but even if we could, I don’t see how we could get them into position quickly enough to deal with the threat.”  Alistair thought for a moment.  “I suppose we could call up the armies of all of our vassals…”“If we have to, we could deploy some of the reserve forces we have kept near the capital, your grace.  With the coronation past, the threat of an attack on the capital has diminished substantially.  I must admit that I don’t feel comfortable leaving the capital unprotected.  If this is primarily intended as a diversion…”“I agree.  We might be able to reduce the protective force here, but we need to keep our defenses substantially intact.”“We could send the knights who are planning on committing suicide,” suggested Kit.  “They’re mostly elderly, and it’s kind of gross to take advantage of their planned suicides, but . . .”“We might as well.  Most of them would rather go out fighting gloriously, anyway.”“What about the young lord, your grace?  I’m worried that he will attempt to return to Grokken.”Kit nodded in agreement.  “He’s hurt, right?  We can try to keep him in recovery for long enough to make sure that he doesn’t run back to the fight before its over.”“And while we’re at it, we can make sure he has a very cute nurse taking care of him.  See if we can distract him a little.”Kit quickly endorsed this plan, and Dame Brionna said that she would take care of it.  She decided that there was no need to let the rest of the Council know that she interpreted “very cute nurse” as “virtuous young noblewoman.”  After all, if they were going to be setting young Lord Cogswood up with someone, they might as well facilitate a proper match.</blockquote>

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