The following days passed quickly and as suspected there was little time for personal relationships. Tilly relished the nights curled up with Dill around her and the mornings waking with him, but both were too exhausted to do more than hug and kiss when they finally got to bed. Days were spent discussing tactics and on more and more complex training exercises, entering and sweeping premises, fighting techniques and intelligence gathering.
The Council had sent some more information, not detailing what they were going to do, but indicating what sort of situations they needed to be prepared for and the focus for their training. Everyone worked morning to night wanting to be ready.
Eventually the day came when Tom and Sam had to leave. They would be gone at least overnight and Tilly and Ale
