[color=A0A0A0][h2]Fleuri Jodeau[/h2][/color]
Fleuri watched as Morianne cast a spell of charming on the bandit.  Any resistance the prisoner had seemed to disappear as he explained the fortification that lay ahead.  Fleuri was impressed at this feat of magic, but found himself a little unsettled at the notion of playing with someone's mind.  Would he be able to resist the effects of magics, if they were cast upon him?  A few years ago he would probably would've been easy to put under such a spell.  In the present day, by contrast, he hoped that his rediscovered piety would serve him well enough.

Fleuri wouldn't be standing around to think about it- Tyaethe ordered Fleuri, among other knights, to dispose of the corpses.  As he began to look around for a body to move, however, Morianne asked the knights for help moving the now-unconscious prisoner.

[color=A0A0A0]"I'll help you out, Dame Morianne,"[/color] Fleuri answered as he picked up the bandit and threw him over his shoulder.  He'd much rather handle the living than the dead, and Tyaethe had already gathered plenty of corpse-movers from among the Iron Roses.

[color=A0A0A0]"Speaking of him, that was a rather impressive trick, getting him to talk like that,"[/color] he complimented her.

Morianne was an oddity among the knights.  She was a wood elf and troubadour, neither of which were particularly common in the order.  She wasn't known for having a particularly pleasant personality, as evidenced by her subduing of the bandit as soon as she had gotten what she needed out of him.  Still, Fleuri never made a point of antagonizing her- as an ageless elf and a bard, it was quite likely that if she didn't die in battle, she may very well live to write songs, romances, and poems of the Iron Roses, and to become her enemy would be to risk being portrayed in a less-than flattering light to future generations.

As Fleuri carried the unconscious prisoner to their rear rank to be bound, he noticed the corpses being piled up.  As the pile was built up, Fleuri thought back on his past.  During the War of the Red Flag, he and his mentor visited the aftermath of a few battles.  During this time, the duo witnessed firsthand what could happen when the dead of a battle were left unattended.  He learned the importance of cleaning up the fallen, even those not judged worthy of a proper burial.  There were many reasons to do so- to prevent the spread of disease, to give the most basic dignity to their enemies, to keep potentially dangerous scavengers from amassing in the area- but the most important one was to ensure they didn't get back up as undead.  The Iron Roses were more than capable of handling a few shambling corpses if the need arose, but was much better to prevent the raising of the dead than to undo it after the fact.

[@Psychic Loser]