Chapter 21:
“Your blood servants have been diligent and tactically astute. The traps they constructed are crude but serviceable.”
After nightfall, Lady Femis personally led a few Midnight Hunters to inspect the ambush site. Her servant, Lady Adele, must have given her some “gossip,” yet upon seeing the efforts of the sixteen small players in planning and the day’s work by the blood servants, the lady did not admonish Murphy harshly.
Especially after seeing the trench the blood servants were widening and deepening, as well as the automated ballistae mounted on Murphy’s carriage, the lady nodded in satisfaction.
This effective work proved that Murphy, an outlying member of the clan, was indeed committed to his decoy and ambush mission. Despite being assigned a sacrificial role, his diligent attitude greatly improved the lady’s impression of him.
Since they were all serving the clan’s interests, there was no need to overreact to minor unpleasantries.
This was the lady’s philosophy and what her patriarch father had taught her.
“I am merely doing my duty, my lady.”
Murphy replied humbly. He then suggested:
“These traps are still quite crude, as my blood servants are but vengeful civilians gathered from the massacred Morland Village.