There was an attack today when that...Princey person tried to do a speech. It was quite enlightening but I suppose not so enlightening for the attackers. One of them got me with their longsword (I'll need to remember to sow this later) and when we tried to speak to them, they were spouting all sorts of nonsense words. They called us serfs (which is factually incorrect) and tried to suggest that necessary evils were sometimes needed!
NECESSARY.
EVILS.
Such a bizarre concept to even consider! Evil is not necessary and goodness is needed to fight evil. You do not fight evil with more evil. That is just increasing the overall amount of darkness in the world. You do not assassinate, you use noble combat to fight or use reasoning to persuade or empathy to understand. There are some things I will never understand, unfortunately. Like the House Jorasco's insistence on being paid to heal people. That is unthinkable! Everyone has the right to life, to not die in a muddy tent (need to check with Honest Harold if he can get some more soap, there is never enough) in the middle of a field due to being poor. I understand that these Royal people are meant to be paying but the principle of the matter is bizarre. You do not meditate for coin, you do not train for coin, why would you heal for coin? It doesn't make sense and nothing I have said to Thara seems to change their mind and nothing that they say makes it make any more sense. Regardless, I heal, I clean and I empathise with the sick, the injured, the ill.
I am getting distracted but I do not believe this person really understands what they mean. They may have been misled by something called a "newspaper" which apparently is how people learn about new events. I suppose that must do if they are unable to learn things through any other means. Perhaps that is why the people here seem to hold the Riedrans in such high regard; they have been told incorrectly. Confusing. Perhaps everyone here has different definitions of oppression and evil than we have in Adar.
Today was probably the longest time I've spent with other people that has not been Warden or Thara or the long term patients. The Prince put us all into a team since we were able and willing to quell evil. I suppose that is as good a reason as any.
Terfal - a soldier from Old Cyre - seems to be fairly acquainted with the prince but given the size of the camp and the length of time it has been here, I am unsure why I am surprised. He has the look of a man who has lost a lot but hides it behind his stride. He seems to be determined in his goals which I suppose are the same as mine in this group so must be good. He was quite hurt during the skirmish but was straight into his next task.
We met his child as well - Llyr, I think - who was being taught a useful skill from Siebold. It is a start but the children here seem to be...strange. Very behind on the basics and I've not seen one meditate. Must be a Cyre thing. The child asked me if I had failed my brethren against the darkness. I could not answer him. Warden answered for himself but I still cannot. Medalshana pushed us out. If not, I would likely still be there. We were tricked and I cannot feel easy on that. Perhaps children are built to ask the difficult questions - that they are free to ask anything so they can learn.
The lizard Dax is...perhaps the most brutally practical person I have ever met. Threatened to eat the legs of one of the captured perpetrators. I believe she was pretending she would do that to intimidate the man but that's a bit...much for my tastes. I have seen her occasionally either going off to hunt or bringing in her kills back to the camp. There is little food so ensuring people get theirs is a good thing - there is no point in me healing people just to starve to death - so I know she is doing good.
Myric is very quiet. I know he is a mercenary so is exchanging his combat skills for coin which by all accounts is a common job here. I have yet to speak to him so I know the least about him from the others. I wonder if he gets to choose the type of people he works for? What if he starts working for someone who is thoroughly unpleasant? Or worse? He can also make a ghostly version of himself which is a pretty interesting thing to be able to do. Imagine the amount of healing I could do!
Warden is part of the group and I am happy for that. Although, I am starting to suspect that he is not...human? Or elven or anything else I have seen. The armour stays on, I have never seen him eat, he spoke about the day he was forged (birth? creation? It might be a strange saying over these parts but I do not want them to think me a fool). The strangest - the absolute strangest - is that the goblin told him he had woodrot! Woodrot! How can someone "get" woodrot?
Still, there are more investigations to be done and hopefully we will get to the bottom of this and get supplies flowing into the camp before too long.