Lans asks the escort to lead him back to the others. 

Despite the niceties, Lans, as always, feels dissatisfied. Nothing was achieved in the end. He had hoped the Orcs would be more decisive than their human counterparts. But he supposes that this sort of bureaucracy was universal. 

And then a dark thought ran through his head: "What if the Madness was the only way to get things done the way he wanted?" He quickly dismissed this idea, scared of where it would take him. He never was one for philosophy.