Linda shakes her head. "Like I said. They've set up that ambush on the word of a coward. If you extrapolate from their perceived arrogance and the fact that this" she taps the zombie again. "was one chosen to defend the temple, it's a reasonable assumption to make that him reporting our defeat would hold more weight to the remaining defenders than the one that fled from us. With it's size and freshness the zombie can pass for living at a glance, badly wounded but still alive. But it cannot speak, it's nothing but negative energy animating a corpse. That's where Xarces comes in. My own ill opinion of his personality aside, I'd trust him to be able to spin a convincing enough lie to lure a few of those defenders out into our own ambush. Sending it charging ahead is a last resort and climbing inside it is utterly ridiculous. It's a lumbering oaf compared to anything living and dead flesh tears before it stretches. With the blackscales still stuffing my tail I'd tear the thing open by myself. Not that want to wind up inside another creature under any circumstances, living or dead. You may see it as an opportunity to strike at organs, but I'd much rather just eat it myself." Linda licks her lips. "Though I lack the physical strength needed to overpower things in my own right. That's where the skeletons and that thing with my hair come in. Wish I could do that one more often. I can only do it once more, twice if it's an emergency. So as it stands I'm saving it for disabling their priestess since moving is already getting difficult with two of them in my stomach. Any more and I'd be struggling to get around. Not a situation I'd want to be in when there are more of them about."