"I know. Tomorrow or the day after. We need to let them have a little time with their families. And we need to explain to them that they might not all come back."

"They already know that. That's drilled into them when they start warrior training."

I nodded, and we got back to work.

As soon as Ethan had chosen the warriors that he wanted to take with us, we called a meeting and met them all in the conference room with a really large map.

I put red dots on all the packs ...