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[red_branch]

[Poised on a stretch of snow-capped cliffs looking over Cothromach's strong-hold on one side, Cu Chulainn posted on his locket and gave it a wide grin. His spear was resting over his shoulder and he looked absolutely unbothered by the razor-sharp, freezing winds lashing at him. In the far distance, a plume of black smoke rose up from a camp that he had recently razed and destroyed. Lancer made his distance earlier, to avoid being scouted too easily]

Hey there. It's come to my attention that we've got some unwelcome Unseelie soldiers sticking around Cothromach. I think they figured their camps were pretty well-disguised, but after awhile--it gets tough to hide that many soldiers. So--

[With a grin, he stood up straight and began walking up the cliff-face, scaling the mountain on foot. At that point, the mangled and burning Unseelie camp could be seen more clearly in the opposite direction as Cothromach. The mountain face gave Lancer an eagle's view of that camp, though it was largely too difficult for most people to scale as quickly as he had.]

I'm usually the type to hog the glory, but I'm missing a few of my precious abilities, so I'll need some help rooting those folks out and running them out of these lands. Who's in for some raids?

[OOC: Plot planning is here!]

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[showmeyourwreath]

[She waves in greeting to Lancer before lacing her fingers under her chin.]

What makes this place so special, exactly? Why is it a target?

[War is war, that's not the part she's arguing, but strongholds are seized or destroyed, there are places of strategic importance or other value, she wants to know specifics, if he has them.]

There are civilians there, aren't there.

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[red_branch]

You got it, Flora. [It was ever the reason to fight--because the enemy was there.]

That said, it doesn't feel like a strategic stronghold in a normal war, though this is just a grab for land. This kind of city is something more of a location protected by treacherous lands to dissuade the notion of war.

So, naturally, it doesn't make sense to me why they want it. A remote place like this could be left alone.

permavid

[showmeyourwreath]

That is pretty strange then, but there could be more to this than we know. [Such is the way of things.]

Though if it's surrounded by treacherous terrain, it could be why they want it. That would make it defensible in its own right, to say nothing of whatever fortifications they could add, and it's on the edges of Glaschu. But why try to take it, why now...?

[The last she says more to herself, but it still bears some thought. She has some reading to do, but she knows that it's deep in the mountains, and those often make for hardy places. This can't be the first time someone's tried to take it in all of history, but she hasn't heard much about something recent either, so what's different.]

Anyway, you can count on me. I'm hoping this won't get too sticky, but if there are innocent people there, that's good enough for me.

[red_branch]

It could be something as simple as pride--or, some measly reason like the use of a 'test' of power. [Lancer knew Morla behaved a bit like Medb in a few ways just by measure of rumors. She was definitely temperamental and likely to attack folks on a whim. If not for political ramifications, he was certain a war would have already been waging against Cothromach before he arrived.]

I've always thought it was a waste of time to question lords and ladies about their intentions.