Hog encouraged:
"As small folks, we should not pursue power, that is not something we should crave. We must make good use of the power of wisdom. As for this time going to Shadow Valley to persuade the old, weak, women, and children to surrender, it is the ultimate test of your wisdom.
You might die miserably under the sharp blades of those fierce Barbarian Soldiers.
But if you return to our Ancestral land with the strength entrusted to you by Sir Huggesen, then no one would dare question your authority."
"But those people cannot be brought back to the Polluted Swamp, Wise Wolf Lord."
Nash promptly said, drawing from one fact to infer another:
"Although Governor Morphy harbors goodwill toward us, the existence of over a hundred thousand Wolf People in the Polluted Swamp will make the local Transia People and northerners feel threatened.
