He woke up to the low murmur of anxious voices. His heart began to thud-thud-thud in his chest, in his ears. Hands shaking faintly, Telmé slipped out of bed and crept across the room. The door to the receiving room was just barely cracked open. Birgir, a Paladin, and a Dragoon sat with his mothers around the table. The torches on the wall behind them indicated it was roughly half past the Hour of Angels, the fourth hour of the morning. Had he really slept for several hours?
"can't hope to stop that many with our current forces. I was hoping we would have more time to recover. Being forced to go in so many directions at once with our current numbers is tantamount to suicide." Birgir raked a hand through his hair and drained the tea Matilda put in front of him. "Send the forces you suggested," he finally told the Paladin and Dragoon. "Let us hope to the Goddesses they manage better than we all fear."
"We will do our best, Highness."