I nodded to the rider as I got the clans ready for when we spring the news to the thalmor. once we told them we were succeeding it would be difficult to get the hard headed (most of them) out of the forest. we swore to protect the forest no matter what and they knew that, they would most likely use their destruction magic to burn down our forests when we tell them. which is why I needed to wait for them to send aid before we kicked them out otherwise we would violate the green pact and have failed to protect our forest. we just needed to wait for the empires battle mages