We will be attacked again tomorrow.

We thought the bulk of the army would attack Pearlhold, we were wrong.

The oncoming army is easily the largest mass of people I have ever seen. There is no chance that they can sneak up on us with that many soldiers, so we saw them a ways out from here. They came from the opposite direction from Pearlhold, so it is unlikely Par knows they're coming yet.

They were a little more than a day away from us when we spotted them, and it takes around that long to travel between Pearlhold and here. At best Par will arrive with reinforcements shortly after the fighting starts. And we will need reinforcements.

As for what I did today, I helped the Ents create walls. The longer we can delay them the better chance we have of surviving.

Personally, I’m excited. Yes, this is a very dangerous situation, but that same danger presents an opportunity. By all reports this is a very large chunk of the armies of the surrounding city-states, if we can do enough damage to them we can cripple them, leaving them easy to conquer in turn. I’ve never really cared about taking over cities, but Par wants to rule a country, and there are certain benefits from having friends in those kinds of positions. Things like easy access to new plants.

I’m going to stay up a bit longer to work on the walls, which are more or less made of massive, durable trees. Hopefully, they will delay the approaching army for a while.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.