He'Kar Frindur! (Part 1)

"What do we do?" Clay asked as he looked at Noslin. 

"Nothing, for now." Noslin sighed as she replied. "We'll activate the fallback defences if the Stalkers appear. Until then, we wait to see if anyone made it out. Exile and Mikari are still missing at the very least."

"Hm, Exile should be able to make it. But I don't see him abandoning Mikari. So it might take him longer if he's trying to secure his life." Clay groaned as he glanced at the agitated players in their battle formations. "Morale is practically gone too."

"You can't blame them. We just took the worst beating possible. Our whole expeditionary army was wiped out." Noslin shook her head as she studied the forest. "It doesn't look good for us. Their numbers are even higher than we anticipated. Only Exile can reliably survive in this war. The rest of us are just cannon fodder."