Chapter 20: Keep morale high!

I was beginning to worry about my humans and the gnomes. Mael, Nara, Nesta and Nathan were with me, but it was not safe for them here, in the war camp.

Someone had to be there to protect those who had treated my old girl well.

But how does one explain to orcs in the prime of their lives, with arms like boulders, that they should not go to war?

"No," Mael said, a soft smile on his lips. "Do we get a mug of that?"

I narrowed my eyes. Here I was trying to save their lives, after managing to talk Brandon into getting some reinforcements, and those four wanted to throw their lives away!

"Look," they were warriors, I was not. But they could not cook healing food.

Which, even at just 1% recovery could at least stop the bleeding of a cut, or…

Yes, I needed to level up my food. The fact I had 2,000 hungry mouths to feed would help with that.

But Mael and Nara had two children! They had to think about their future!