Edge of Extinction war story/Chapter 8

"We need to go back for Father Lux," one of the assembled undead declared. "He came to save us. Now we must return the favor."

"No," Yacob answered firmly. "Father Lux ordered us not to turn back. We will respect his wishes and follow that order."

"But, Yacob! They will kill him..."

"That is a very real possibility. He knew that when he took a stand there."

"That does not make it okay! Not if we can stop it. It is completely unfair. Cagliari was saving us from the necromancers! His actions were HELPING those paladins, even if indirectly..."

"It is not fair, but when has life ever been fair, Yusef? The paladins certainly did not know that. They see us as a large army of undead moving outside Darkovia. We are distant from the front."

"Then you do not think they followed us specifically to hunt us down?"

"Do not be ridiculous. There is no sense in that. The Paladin Order has better tacticians. No, they happened upon us while on patrol in this area. They likely worried that the boundaries of the war were expanding or that the necromancers were using Darkovia as well as Granemor as points from which to launch their attack on Battleon."

"They are likely right in that suspicion too... The Order of the Mantle has always been active in this region."

"Their model was active here, too..."

"All the more reason to go. We have to rescue Cagliari before their mistake costs him his life!"

"We cannot go after the father. What if we were captured or killed in the process? Then what?"

"Then at least we tried!"

"Yes, and then he dies anyway, and he dies for NOTHING..."