The conversation seems to bring people back to their senses, as everyone focuses, again. "I spoke with one of the local rangers; he's been scouting the enemy for the past month. The local lord's hired some mercenaries, and they've done good work at thinning them out in this region, although they get denser at the base of the mountain, where we'll need to punch through them to get inside." "Let me give a little more healing to her wing... I did what I could, yesterday, but it's fragile, and if I heal it wrong, she'll never fly again." "Do we know where the defenses are weakest?" "Does it matter? They're going to be fortified, no matter where we go." "I'll prepare a mass invisibility; we ought to be able to slip through, unnoticed, unless someone has a better plan."