Raine considers that, then shakes his head. "Let me try diplomacy first. If that fails ..." He trails off. He doesn't look very comfortable with the idea. But when the alternative is what it is... he is even less comfortable with that. "I would like to know how they are guarded, and how ... observant the guards seem to be." If it comes to that ... the less fighting they need to do, the better. And even if it doesn't ... Raine grumbles a little as he turns to Alchfried. "As for attempting to turn words against this man - Laurin is quite right. I imagine he is quite accustomed to the twisting of words - what else is politics, after all?" Raine's expression is very sour, as he says the last bit - one might almost think he had bitten into something rotten on the word 'politics'...