He gave her a glare as she punched him, before shaking his head. "So the fact that the nearest six patrols, about 100 or so soldiers with experienced clerics and leaders, are dead, along with six chimera and four manticore, makes none of this acceptable? I fought in my dragon form, flying above them, and flew down to finish off the survivors. The slash was from one of the survivors being brave instead of smart. The bruises and scrapes was when the ten fliers saw me on the ground and decided to play."<br/><br/>He wasn't going to drag the young silver into the fight, she was young and wouldn't fare well in the up coming siege, lacking the experience needed to make it through intact. He stepped around her, and into the room where the others were, and noted who was there. If the Lord was, he gave his report about demolishing the six patrols and their supporting flight of air units, though he didn't mention that he had let one survivor stagger back to the horde to deliver a message, "the Mage of the Skull Gorge Bridge is coming for you."<br/><br/>Once the message was delivered, the soldier would explode quiet messily, and he hoped publicly, further damaging the moral of the army. He then collapsed into his chair, and shook his head to clear the exhaustion before continuing. "The survivors of my attacks were eager to share what information they had. There are two more dragons left, though one of them hasn't been seen in quite some time. The red will attack with the horde, but their blue dragon is elsewhere, and what it is doing is currently unknown. The army is spread out and moving through the forest, due to our destruction of the Gorge Bridge, otherwise they would have been marching hard down the main road to try and hit the town before its defenses are fully up. As it is, the survivor claimed that they want as many non-fighters here as possible, to sap resources and damage moral as the fighting starts."