Predictably Hyarmenion was watching that bird that had just arrived. It would have of course been rather difficult not to watch it, considering that it was the most obvious thing around him at all. He had both cared about the message, of course, but also the bird that had been trained to bring the message to them.<br/><br/>Ultimately, the events involving the four Imperial Army Soldiers as well as Sorin's moves give Hyarmenion an unusual idea. He found several individuals that had survived the earlier naval adventures. Figuring that it would have been possible to establish a supply line and finally sneak people and supplies down a river if given a chance to, he gave orders to make rafts in order to do just that.<br/><br/>These individuals were considered hardy enough to perform said sneaking, and naturally the elf officer helped with the construction as well. It hadn't taken long, and it would have sped things up, especially if they had to establish a base camp at Kikimora anyway. They were going to need to move many things there if they were going to need to engage anyone at that point.<br/><br/>Unorthodox thinking was something that he had become of course quite good at over time. It became something of a hallmark of his command style anyway, so he wasn't afraid of what reactions there might have been to it at this point. He figured that Sorin and Rubii would have trusted him enough when it came to making these sorts of decisions. Should they not have, though, he figured that it must have equally been easy to ask for forgiveness rather than have to ask for permission. It was an old axiom, but one that still unfortunately seemed to hold true at times.