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Hold position. Glare at the boss.

"..."

For a second Astrid disbelieved it out of hand - it was utterly ridiculous to even consider that she might randomly run into a princess out in the woods at a bandit camp. But as she properly processed the information, she remembered some of the things she'd had to learn in preparation for serving Hagen - which had included some amount of information on the royal family, being his relatives. And now that she thought about it she could swear she recognized her...

She coughed, switching to the best formal tone she could manage and blushing a bit from the embarassment.

"A-Apologies, milady. I am Earl Albin's retainer, Astrid Frei. I should have recognized you, I was not expecting to run into royalty here... I'd get down to kneel, but that is likely unwise in a battle, so I'll have to leave it at a salute for now..."

"We were in the nearby village when it was assaulted by brigands from this camp. We helped fend off the attack, and Lord Hagen decided it best to deal with the threat more thoroughly before it could grow even worse."

Estela

"Mirka, get ready to bolt. Might need you to run that message up the line if the storm's interfering as bad as the radio op says, and you're the fastest we've got." Estela said as an aside, before turning back to the radio. "Yeah, that's me. Now could you tell me who the hell you are and why you think for one second that a meister of an opposing nation attacking a woman in Katrian uniform isn't something I should worry about?" Of course, Estela was suspicious of who that Katrian was, for all the reasons she'd been curious earlier, but the woman on the other end of the line didn't need to know that.

Estela
Estela felt a bolt of excitement watching the fight unfold - this was the kind of fight few would ever get to witness, let alone take part in. The strongest woman in the world and one of a handful of people who could stand against her without perishing in the opening blows. The one she was fighting was in Katrian officer uniform, although surely they'd know about someone strong enough to fight Lily in their ranks.

As much as Estela would love to join that bout right then and there, two things stopped her. One - battle-crazed though she was, suicidal she was not. You don't just jump into a fight like that without a plan or really knowing who you're planning to punch if you want to survive the experience. Two - she was in command of a unit. She had responsibilties and she would damn well carry them out.

"Get on the long range and report to command," Estela barked into the radio back to her unit, "We need every spare meister they've got - Lily of Damnation just showed up and she's pissed. She's engaged an officer in Katrian uniform, but we can't identify them. Once you relay that, the rally point for our unit is..." she described a location not too far from their current spot - positioning the unit so she could make a call on whether to intervene once they were all grouped up.

Then she switched channels. "Iona, stay hidden and keep watch on them as long as you can. We can't go walking in blind."

K3, bonk the axeman with sword, Cant to J2.

Stab Bandit1.

M3, bonk the bandit with the bronze lance.