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"Morgan! Hey!" Rivven shouted, quickening his pace a little, but careful not to leave Quin too far behind. He stopped again when he came within sight, waiting for the limping man to catch up. "How is it coming for you all? Anything new, or are we still in about the same stages of planning as before?"

"I know, that's what I'm here to do." he said, holding her up firmly in his arms, and kissing her back, lightly on the lips. "However I've been speaking to Quintilius. Melee is a viable option, but the enemy's dug in, and they have high performance fire arms. If you just rush in, you'll have more bullets in you by the time you get close enough to strike than I did that night you found me on the hill. I think we need to bring them out of their hiding place, and perform the rush to melee like an ambush; I think I can 'smoke' them out of their hiding hole, and if we can force them to the forest from there, it will get much easier for us all to come down on them without leaving as much opening to enemy fire until we're close enough to force them to drop the rifles and take out close combat weaponry." it seemed odd, talking tactics and killing while affectionately holding his wife, but it needed to be done sooner or later, and if they'd just been sitting about like he and Quintilius had been before, it would have been nothing out of the ordinary at all to him. "I've been told they set up defenses by the bar's ruins. Would you or Pale know of a body of water within a short walk of there?"

Rivven kissed her again, and considered it. "I didn't literally mean smoke them out. People often get enemies, or even and animal their hunting, out of a hole they've dug themselves into safely by starting a fire on it or in one entrance, but as our enemy is on a cleared landscape and in the open, not a building, smoke won't work itself. No, I was thinking more along the lines of applying the concept in a way it's much less often done; I can flood them out. All I need is some water, preferably a rather short walk between here and there, or else I'll risk tiring myself out just getting the proper amount here, before I start trying to smother them in it."

"I just want to finish this without too many more injuries than need be." he said, and leaned his head against her, closing his eyes and taking a deep, calming breath. "I just look forward to having you, and everyone else for that matter, safe again. Besides, how are we supposed to settle in at home with all this?" he chuckled, and kissed one of her cheeks.

Rivven paused, taking a more serious expression, lowering his lips to her neck and kissing her just once. "If you want one... I'm sure you'll find one. We can build ourselves a place to call our own, together." he wispered, not actually refering to a building, but what made a building a home, that emotion of belonging, of safety and comfort. She deserved, at the very least, that. Everyone did, to some extent. And he wanted to find out what that would feel like, to have a home. He would have talked more in depth, but they probably should have been putting their full attention into the planning then, so the rest might be best left until later.

Alan, who had overheard parts of the conversation on his way back to his lab, stopped for a moment. He raised a finger.
"If I may interrupt for a moment, I believe I have a solution to your armor problem."
He pulled the small metal ball from his pocket and held it up. "This metal should be able to withstand their guns. I tested it in the lab and it held up very well. I should be able to make more if I can get the materials. Its near impossible to shape without magic though, so we'll have to create it allready in the form of what we need."

"I think simple shields would work better really, not to mention that they would be easier to make. I'm not sure how effective we would be from behind them, but it would serve as a great distraction to anyone firing upon us. It would allow someone else to perhaps go unnoticed."