Michael closes his eyes and tries to be thinky.
The lie lady lies, so he has to be thinky to see through her lies.
He wishes he was better at being thinky, like Zaeryl or Almayce.
They need to stay at the back so they can do thinky things.
Then he and Hulgyr and Ironwolf go smite evil and keep the evil away from them.
Then he realizes.
We put our thinky people behind Ironwolf an Hulgyr an me.
The lie lady does the same thing, so she can lie and lie without being hit.
That means the lie lady and her thinky friends are hiding behind the monsters.
But all the monsters are are around Hulgyr and Ironwolf.
If I could get around the monsters, I could smite the lie lady and her thinky friends. Hulgyr and Ironwolf can't get around the monsters, cause they're surrounded.
Michael looks to see if he can double-move round the melee in the center of the room, preferably without drawing attacks of opportunity. If there's no space for him to get by, he wants to charge a monster on the fringes of the fight and smite it.
Either way, he's off at a run, yelling.
"Zaeryl! Get the thinky people!!"