"We should go back and regroup," Yoka said after a while of the men in both squads airing their distaste about what was about to happen to the ladies.
Sagiri had been sitting in silence, trying to recover his strength. It was not the breaking of the illusion that had tired him a little, but the holding of twenty-five people in the archive pocket, being stuck in the illusion madness, and breaking in had depleted a third of the archive's strength. He could still go on for days, but he wanted to regain some of that strength before he faced Tatani.
"No," Sagiri said, standing to his feet. "We keep going."
"The plan was to scout till midday and go back, then come again tomorrow," Tavora said. As a strategist, he was stiff and stuck to the plan, which could be a good thing, but if what he said happened to the ladies was true, then going back to regroup was the last thing they needed to do now.
