Journal of Vlad, Number ?
Is boring in Barracks. Nothingk of any significance has been happeningk.
Ve vas goingk to be teachingk poor Olin how varfare really works, yes? Before she goes and gets herself killed, yes? Brenzen is funny dwarf, but not funny vhen people listen to him. Dying for fortress makes for good song, yes, but the thingk is that dead people cannot be fightingk. Vlad vas very thoroughly briefed on our objective vhen they hired me - ve hold the pass and don't let the enemy through. Vhat part of dyingk stops enemy? If anythingk the military & supportingk personnel need to be alive to continue to hold the pass. Dyingk in the process is just symptom of bad luck or incompetence on behalf of command. Never enter fight you cannot vin - cardinal rule of battle. If necessary, you should be shuttingk the gates and letting attrition do the vork for you, yes?
Anyway, Olin has not been reportingk for duty very often, and is very tired, yes? Strange, yes? Now Vlad does not want to pry - especially into life of someone vho actually believes dwarf like Brenzen - but not good. Brenzen of course does not seem to be noticingk - probably thingks his knight can do no vrong on basis of beingk a knight rather than soldier?
Vlad looked into this knight thingk, since Vlad doesn't thingk Thane would be willingk to leave Demongate even if sensible, which means I vould be stayingk here too. All it really means is you agree to take orders from the Order over local commanding officer and agree to do anythingk stupid they suggest without tryingk to do silly thingks like not die or choose to not vork for pointless objective. And you would not even be gettingk payed for this! And yet Brenzen is proud of his knighthood. It's like being proud of not thinkingk for yourself, yes?
Thane is agreeingk with Vlad, which is nice. She raises good point - vhat basis do ve choose vho be leadingk thingks like that? Vlad told her that it was because a) they tend to be possesingk sharp axes and b) because vhen you got tired of governingk Demongate you have to be pickingk Brenzen, but that does not be seemingk to dull her enthusiasm for askingk questions like that, yes? Except askingk questions like that can be gettingk one sent to dig latrines if lucky, hammered (in bad way) if not lucky.
Solution: Vlad needs to get a lot better at fightingk if Vlad needs to bail out Thane. Vhich means more trainingk! Vhere the hell is Olin?