Damen knew his words were a little odd, but considering they were at least taken in account to contemplate over, it did have him relax somewhat. But, hearing Piera lay out a plan to try and get the others to lure in the enemy with a necromatic ritual, well... it was rather dark-sounding, but Ruby seemed intent on playing along; after all, she had talents in combat magic, and she was trying to get into summoning as well. "<span class="fixed-color" style="color:orange">I can do that; Mistress Julia had given me some summon incantations to practice and runes are something I enjoy making, even if they don't do much. They don't do anything special or grand; they can't even harm anyone if I tried... but they give off a variety of effects that make it all the more convincing, creating summoning glyphs that call mock summons, I'm sure. If it's a necromatic ritual, then it will have to be revolved around shadows and darkness... I'll be able to teach you and Alex the dance steps to help bring more 'life' into it, really!</span>" Ruby already seemed so interested in it, as she was given a role... but Damen wondered where he would fit into all of this. He could, from the side, enchant Ruby's staff with fire to make it seem like what she's summoning is heading her call... and if she's attacked, she has the flames to help get her attackers away if any appeared.<br/><br/>"I'll be honest, I have a bad feeling about this... but as long as we have a plan laid out where it will work, and with as few injuries as possible, I'm going to suggest that we should prepare it so our adversaries only have but one single way of going in and back out. That way, two of our physical attackers will get the upper hand of striking them preemptively under the guise of nightfall... and if Ruby times it right, we can use the darkness her 'chant' provides to our advantage to blind them. That is my input... if there are any faults in it, Lydalia, you're more than welcome to redirect the command in another manner." Damen was only throwing his suggestion out there; while it wasn't anything fancy, it was an effective battlefield strategy; lead enemies in one way, and after closing their only way out, the only thing to do is to slaughter them while they are unable to flee.<br/><br/>"Aside from that, however... I'm going to do my best. What would you need or prefer me to do for the plan to work effectively?" Damen asked with inquiry, steadily waiting for a response from either Lydalia or Piero to give him instructions; he seemed on board with the plan, despite his minor reluctance in the fact it meant the handling in corpses...