Paige 4 - ACKs Session 5

Well, that could have gone horribly wrong (and in some ways, it did).

I said earlier that everything was a blur when I covered our retreat from the tunnels when we first found them, and I didn't think about it much afterwards.  It was instinct, I suppose - my friend was hurt, we were chased by people who wanted to kill us, so I left one of them dead.  I got to see someone else's way of doing things this time, when Bomani rattled out instructions and orders right when everything was close to collapse.  I can't think that fast at the best of times, and part of me doesn't want to know how many fights he's been through to let him react as if he'd planned it all along.

I couldn't do much this time, since people quickly charged the dogfolk to avoid being stoned to death along with Yannick. I'm fine with that; I'm best with my bow when I can ignore everything and just get on with making someone bleed.  When the target's half blocked by one of your friends, and you're as like to shoot them as you are the one you actually want to kill, it stops being easy.  This time I concentrated on making myself useful behind the lines, and helped Narmak recover from a wound which looked terrifying at first.  Happily barely any of the blood was hers, and she was back on her feet without me needing to staunch anything or amputate - I'd have no clue about doing either.

Judging by the mess, my friends must have been fairly terrifying themselves.  It looks like they went through dozens of the dogfolk before it turned into a rout, and even though we took some wounds on the way out after the dogfolk got clever and started to shoot out of the shadows, this all felt like we'd won ourselves a fairly big victory.

Of course, those high spirits disappeared when we saw the smoke coming from the village after we'd decided to rest there for the night.  We've gone from a conquering band of warriors to a group of walking wounded looking for shelter, which leaves us in a pretty desperate state if any of the village's attackers are still around.  I'm unwounded, which is great, but it looks like the dogfolk tore chunks out of Yannick, Bomani and some of our newer friends.  Time to make myself useful again, since it looks like most of our group won't be forming a battle line again today.