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Just browsing the internet on his phone, Hector noticed that a lot of media attention was being given to the still-undeclared nations of Intar and Steccat. There appeared to be considerable international pressure on them to get involved, and just about every news outlet was anticipating them to issue an official statement about their position very soon.

The reapers, however, all seemed to think that neither of those giants would join the war.

'It might be different if Intar and Steccat were enemies,' Garovel explained privately. 'In such a case, they would each be feeling the pressure to support their allies against one another. But they're not enemies. They're on pretty good terms, last I checked.'

And many of the other reapers around Warrenhold had more things to say about this subject. The persistent reaper chatter in his head was at an all-time high. It got so bad, in fact, that a lot of the servants decided to leave the main area and go hang out in the lower caves just to get away from all voices in their heads.

Hector, for his part, could just kind of tune them out if he wanted, but he felt like he had to listen as best he could. Whatever decision they eventually arrived at would be enormously important to all of their futures.

Overall, the Rainlords were pretty clearly in a state of confusion and anger. They needed time to sort their thoughts out. The war between Sair and Calthos was obviously their greatest concern, but there was no consensus among them regarding what they should do about it.

Some, unsurprisingly, wanted to depart immediately and go join the Sandlords in battle this very moment, but thankfully, there were many voices in opposition to that idea--more voices than Hector might've expected, actually.