The Advance Force - Part 6

Everyone was there. He reassured himself of that. It had been a panic-inducing camp to make, but now that he was awake, he could see that it had been the right decision. To bear one's army to a certain sort of weakness, based on the orders of another, Oliver hadn't expected that to be so hard. Only with the coming of morning could he see that General Karstly's decision had very much been the right one.

Oliver's head felt sluggish. His body groaned at him for a few hours more sleep. They'd hardly slept half the time that he normally would, given how late they had made their camp. No one else seemed inclined to move any time soon.