crystal ➵ div heads

[rowancrowned]

FORM: 'Crystal'
SENDER: Thranduil
RECIPIENT: Division Heads (Thranduil, Herian, Yseult, Coupe)
NOTES: Re: + Pre- deathplot reveal.

We have lost one in five.

[ there's not much more to say. he has, at least, collected himself beyond the briefly visible if profound despair that had caught him at the announcement by the rescue team. ]

Comments

[limier]

While I do not dispute this, the Scoutmaster speaks true: There are those who will not linger when such a thing is done — it may be as a memorial would signal too, their parting of ways.

We must anticipate some to seek Deshaies. That may wound us further.

[hassaran]

Half of Orlais is in mourning. [ Sharp compared with her usual studied mildness. ] The war does not wait.

We should announce we're formulating a plan to investigate Deshaies. It may stall some.

Beyond that, I would Val Chevin is most pressing. We need intelligence, on land and by sea. Our networks must be shifted to account for enemy access to the Waking Sea and the northern routes into Orlais having been cut off.

[rowancrowned]

Moving ships overland will be difficult. What dockyards or suitable forests will they come into contact with first?