Alice blinked at Claire, before shrugging.<strong>"I said thank you. What more can I do? Offer to kiss everyone in thanks? How silly."</strong><br/><br/>She nodded to the various people as they introduced themselves, before listening carefully to Edmund's thoughts on the matter.<strong>"Yes . . I really would rather keep heading this way, and hopefully running into Silesian reinforcements. At the very least, those mercenaries went south, so we certainly don't want to go that way."</strong>