Alexa sighed, looking around her.  Closest to her were the eight Wild Runners that always accompanied her, and past them were probably the better part of another 100 men, all volunteers aside from the Wild Runners.  She raised a hand, and the minor chatter that had been occurring around her died down.  "We're not here to be heroes.  Not yet.  Get in, hit them hard, and get back out before they cause any casualties," she said simply, looking around and meeting the eyes of each soldier.  "We're there to distract and give the other two teams an opening."  She gestured, and the group spread out, moving slowly.<br/><br/>They started slowly, but as they moved, one of the Runners gestured to the left, and Alexa nodded.  They turned, and bore down on the small squad of demons that had wandered too far from camp.  It was over in minutes, and the squad moved on.  Alexa did not even draw her sword during that conflict.<br/><br/>Another band was dispatched just as quickly, but the second band actually got lucky and almost ambushed the small group of mortal raiders.  Alexa actually had to pull her katana to dispatch two of them personally.