The brothers looked at each other, and then at Lanaey, silently making her the spokesperson. Turning toward their leader, Lanaey put her hands to her hips for more balance and looked Laurel straight in the eye.
"For rescue, there are three basic plans that we can go by. Firstly, we can take a small group in and out, hoping that no one will be seen and all will go well. Secondly, we could take a huge force in, head on. It may confuse them and hopefully we'll be able to do a lot of damage. Lastly, we could send in two small groups; one to get Cartil, the other to cause precise damage," Lanaey paused, letting Laurel think over these options. After a few moments she continued. "I'm sure that you see all the dangers in each of these."
Galain and Gorath who had both been standing to the side qietly, shifted when Lanaey said 'dangers' and Galain quickly broke in.
"I think the best course of action for a rescue would be to send a small group in. We did get in undetected and could do so again."
"Yes, but I think," Lanaey spoke after he had finished, cutting off whatever Laurel had been about to say, "that we should do as much as possible to hurt them when they won't expect it. Two small groups would be -"
Now Gorath spoke up, "Yes, but how do you know they won't be expecting it and are readying themselves right now to take out a group that presents itself. Subvertive -"
Laurel put her hand up and all three looked at her, she was their leader after all.
"So, none of you want to do a full engagement," slight nods all around, "yet you've been, shall we say, discussing which is better: one group or two. Well, there are still more ways than that, say like three small groups. Yes," she shorted another flow of talking, "I'm sure you've already discussed all of this." Laurel paused, thinking again.
Lanaey shifted herself in the silnce, stretching out her muscles as much as she could. Today, she wanted her agility to be at top performance at any moment. Actually, she wanted to be like this till she knew the immediate enemy was no danger, and that wouldn't be for a little while.
Someone spoke, bringing her attention back to the conversation.
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