A soldier dressed in ringmail armour rushed in through the infirmary doorway, first in the long time to be uninjured themselves and not be carrying anyone else. The man stopped as soon as they could see well into the room and sprang into attention. They lifted a message they were carrying onto eye level, so that they could see it through the eyeslit of their helmet and coughed a few times. One of the keeps own infirmary workers sighed and shook their head in silence as the soldier's voice boomed in the room:

"Atteeeeeeeen-tion! As per orders of Governor Nighthill, the people that accompanied a certain Trear Oakfell into the keep, called Ashkar Brannor, Orchid and Parum, are to report onto the battlements to governor himself. Pass the message on and if it is of concern to you, do not keep the man waiting!" With that, the soldier folded the message and raised his hand into a salute. "Carry on your duties, healers", they added and left back on their merry way shouting their message across the keep.

"They just have to come by and harass the suffering, don't they..." the worker that had showed their dislike at the messenger's actions muttered under their breath and measured another length of bandage while shaking their head again. Some of the previously sleeping wounded had been awakened and added their own grunts of pain into the already death-heavy atmosphere of the room. Someone gestured towards Hurrik, the message being more or less "back to work or out of the way".

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On the battlements, the governor stared towards the small light away from his dear town, the source of which had to be the caravan his new specialist had to have come from. The governor could only hope that their luck would be better than that of the guard of Greenest... and that with the help of this group Trear had come this far in that burning mess they could hold, even against the threat of the dragon in the sky. That was, if the group truly was made of heroes and wouldn't simply refuse and hide for their lives. He wouldn't blame them for that. But he dared hope.