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dock and unload." Keither closed his eyes, "It's a nightmare. We did everything we could to minimize civilian casualties and injuries. We knew there was a chance that the empire would destroy food and medical stocks but hoped that it wouldn't, I mean, after all Noris and its inhabitants are still citizens of the Cona Empire, why would you kill your own?"  
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    Legon took his place with Sydin around a large table with representatives of each of the Great Houses and Enrich from the Cona Republic. As Legon was the only Head of House in attendance, he started the meeting presiding over it.  
    He stood and addressed the room. "Thank you all for coming, there is a lot that we need to cover today, so I am going to get right to it. So far our campaign into the Cona Empire has met with relative success. That said, we will have set backs sooner or later. Why don't we all give updates on our various duties," his mind flicked out to the ship and a large map of Noris hovered over the table. Legon sat back down as Sydin rose.
    "Noris has, for the most part, fallen; there are still pockets of resistance but that is to be expected. Human and Elf forces will be spending the next few weeks and maybe even months removing these threats. While the town and its limits seem to be under our control, the towns to the east and north are not. Our troops have not moved on these areas with any degree of seriousness yet. As for Ascended, we have had sporadic attacks on all sides of the town; thus far neither side has taken any casualties in those fights. We think that the Iumenta are looking more to contain them than anything else. Enrich would you mind updating us on your progress?" Sydin asked sitting.
    Enrich stood, not seeming the least bit bothered to be in a room full of Elves. "We consider the invasion of Noris to be a success; we took fewer casualties then estimated and have held our ground. The only issues that we have encountered, other than the expected, is resistance from some parts of town. When Cona soldiers left the area they burned and set traps in most of the buildings with medical and food supplies, we could handle this had they not also destroyed most of their harbor. As it is, we cannot get supplies into the city with any degree of speed. Also, when leaving the Iumenta set many houses and shelters on fire; this has left us with a large amount of homeless and wounded people. We have made ships with medical supplies a priority for landing and off load, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't going to put a hold on advancing up the Kayloose. It's a double edge sword, if we can push our forces up the river we will be able to off load more ships, but if we don't offload supplies now...."
    "There will be high losses of civilians," Hydra, a bronze haired Elf from House Floren said. Her green eyes were thoughtful for a moment, "I will send teams to help rebuild the harbor so you can bring in more ships and also task three destroyers to securing more of the Kayloose." Legon had a great deal of respect for Hydra, she was the admiral of House Floren's fleet and therefore the Head in Command of all Naval activities in the war.  
    "Thank you," Enrich said.
    Legon had a thought. "Hydra?" he asked.
    "Yes Un Prosa," Hydra said.
    "I know that it would be impractical to use the small boats that landing parties came in on, but would it be possible to lash them together and create, oh I don't know, maybe a floating bridge that could extend out into the harbor?"  
    Hydra's eyebrows rose. "What a novel idea Un Prosa. With the movement of the water I don't think just tying the boats together would be stable, nor could they take the weight; but if we maybe took one boat and put it upside down on another and sealed them so water could not leak in we would have a set of floats to make the base of our bridge, or I should say pier." She thought more, "It's not ideal but it should help until we get the rest of the harbor up and running. I will have