Tacey shook her head slightly. The impulse to protest the cavalier's insult to her strength warred with the impulse to let the enemy go right on underestimating her instead of fighting properly, along with her soldierly impulse to tell the idiot to man up and fight like a proper soldier instead of an insult to his uniform, for all that it was the uniform of the enemy.
"Unfortunately for you, I have a new employer. If yeh don't want to fight us, why don't yeh stand down?" Setting deed to words, she leveled her lance and, with a motion of her (unspurred; Creidhne was too well-trained for her to use spurs or anything more violent than a tug of the loose reins) heels, brought her mount to a trot. As she was about to go into a charge against the monk, a sudden movement burst out in front of her. Creidhne didn't quite rear, but he did come to a dead stop, snapping at the interloper as he cleared the arc for her lance to drive in. She only narrowly missed bringing it down on the person as she recognized him as the swordsman, another of the mercenary troupe.
"Are yeh nuts?! Yeh doan' just charge out in front of a rider like that!" Eyeing her options, she found none of them good; with her injuries, leaving the forest would likely be suicidal. Grabbing a vulnerary from her pack, she applied it to Creidhne where he had been injured, counting on the attack as a lucky hit and hoping it didn't repeat.
Use Vulnerary on selfAs the shouting increased from across the road, she glanced over to see one of the soldiers arguing with two others, even as all three continued to fend off the attackers. While an impressive display of skill, it was increasingly worrying to her, especially since her life was likely to rely on these people as long as she was on this contract. Finally, she had enough. Shouting over the din of combat, she directed her growing ire to the three of them.
"Enough, the lot of yeh! If yeh call yerself soldiers, or even mercs, fight the enemy instead of each other! Yeh want ta fight after, then do it after, but right now, we've got bigger fish!" Inwardly, she was beginning to regret her hasty actions signing up with this lot.
Just gotta make it to the pay-out...