Equal Scales - Part 1

So it was that the army of the left was spared from an even more humiliating and damaging loss. Karstly had been watching, ready to take it, and he'd seen the General's arm go up in the air, no doubt about to make a decision even worse than the last. But something had happened, and he had to accept the fact that the dismantling of the army of the left would not go quite so quickly.

"…" General Khan breathed a sigh of relief as well, when he saw that his General had managed to hold himself back from his own order. "General Harme… I apologize for setting you against such a troublesome fox. You have done well to restrain yourself, all things considered."