Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20160726175355/@comment-28358106-20160731200856

"No," Melandil says. "We get as close as we can, led by the Rangers.  We flank as best we can, after field reports from the scouts.  If magic has all but been destroyed, we may not have to worry about their mages.  We'll have to see, but we cannot waste any more time."

"Lady Ironback,  is the Codex in danger of being lost?  What happens if they find it?" Lucida asks.

"Please,  lass, call me Dee.  I don't know why they would want the Codex; nobody's been able to read it for thousands of years.  But they seem ready to spend everything they got getting to it."

There is a lengthy pause. Lucida speaks up.

"What if I copied it?"

Dee starts. "Copied it?  How?  What for?  You wouldn't have time, lass!  It's a thousand pages, and the language has been lost for millennia!"

"But we could copy it, and let them have one.  They'd think they've won, and you'd still have a record."

She looks at Lucida as if she were mad. "Did you not hear what I just said?  How in the world would we ever copy such a thing?"

Lucida shrugs. "I could do it," she says quietly.