[In response to her confirmation, she'll feel that he's satisfied with the answer, and growing more tense.
The time before battle is always a serious time, the wait nearly unbearable. The fact that they're to be the attackers helps a little; the fact that he doesn't know the enemy well is not. He has not really fought in this world before. Only briefly at Everest. No big battle.
He is becoming keen to fight. Maybe they'll lose today, or maybe they will only be able to help a little. Or maybe, somehow, if they're lucky, they'll be able to do something that helps in New Amsterdam. What that is, he's not sure, so it's good that they aren't there alone.
It's not long before the others catch up with them, and they do what they came for.]
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The time before battle is always a serious time, the wait nearly unbearable. The fact that they're to be the attackers helps a little; the fact that he doesn't know the enemy well is not. He has not really fought in this world before. Only briefly at Everest. No big battle.
He is becoming keen to fight. Maybe they'll lose today, or maybe they will only be able to help a little. Or maybe, somehow, if they're lucky, they'll be able to do something that helps in New Amsterdam. What that is, he's not sure, so it's good that they aren't there alone.
It's not long before the others catch up with them, and they do what they came for.]