The Month of Hell

It only took a few weeks before we had the first couple of casualties of the war and it wasn't even from the enemy. Royce came with us to hunt down the guards we had brought along with us. We tracked them down but ended up somehow walking into an ambush of humans. I have no idea how they even evaded me! Royce tried to do some insane plan of his that never would've worked. Sure enough, the lot of us nearly died. Royce, unfortunately, managed to expertly evade the nearly of that statement. I don't fully know how he did other than when I came to he was already dead. His skull was caved in and I didn't know what to do.
 
How would we handle convincing the heads of households to support the cause and ours for that matter? We had already done much to ensure the protection of the city would be handled cleanly and organized and now all our hard work could end up going down the drain simply by the death of a single figure.
 
I, unfortunately, had to rely on...questionable tactics. I convinced Lady Alta that we would need to use the humans and their magic as much as I despise the idea. The humans were burning things down when they were stuck to only using their primitive torches and I can only imagine what they would be able to do. Unfortunately, not all humans are people.
 
Some are simply just monsters.
 
The ones who killed ours for pointy sticks? Well, I will have to admit I dont expect to be looking at them as people anytime soon.