Hills Outside the Stronghold, The Militias Encampment.
'Look Fryath, over there at the entrance, it looks like...' a lookout by the name of Thrui paused to look through here binoculars 'messenger, alone doesn't look very heavily armed'.
Fryath replied 'get the signaler, what was his name... Yuriea, to send out a party of 15 men to bring him in. Watch their every move, if he pulls out a weapon sound the retreat horn' he gestured to a large horn that lay on a table in his tent.
The soldiers saw the signal and after a few minutes of decision making sent out the fifteen men, whom, after hearing the sounds of gunshots that they presumed, correctly, had wiped out their friends, promptly drew their weapons for the walk down the hill to the messenger.
After the short five minute walk which had been shortened by the fact that the man was moving towards them also, they met up with him and talked. 'What happened to the people we sent inside your goddamned fortress?!' one of the soldiers said, nearly yelling and pressing his gun to the mans cheek. 'Well in fact that is part of your message, although I was told to give it straight to your commander, or, whoever you have in charge here' the messenger said in a calm voice.
'I don't give a shit what your orders are, you tell me right here, right now, or I blow your fucking head off!' the soldier said.
'Calm down Neir, if you kill him we won't get the information and I'm sure Fryath will inform us of what happened to Harada and the others, you need to control your feelings for a second here and think rationally' another soldier said. Neir took a deep breath and then removed his gun from the mans cheek. 'Alright, but you pull anything funny and I'll kill you' he said to the man as they began walking up the hill.
Fryath hesitated 'so your saying Karknar wants to make this Island a separate territory from Oscad? Like another country?'
'Yes he prefers to avoid any more violence between our countries, with the raids actually being conducted to lure you here so that we could have this discussion, he also wishes that you let everyone you captured on your way here go, as they are mostly farmers and the like and were only pretending to be soldiers.' the messenger, who's name turned out to be Drak, said.
'So you mean Karknar has no army?' Fryath asked.
'Well of course not, his entire army is inside the stronghold, waiting to defend from any hostile threat, that is why all of you men died as soon as they entered the stronghold' Drak replied.
'Hmm, alright, the purpose of this war was to get Karknar to stop attacking our coastal cities so as long as we have assurance that no more hostile action will be taken against Oscad, then we will leave'
'You have my assurance, it was but a lure' Drak replied.
'Alright, you can return to your home, we will begin departing the area and should be off the island in three days at most' Fryath said and dismissed Drak.
The Oscadans then departed Karkara and left, a vote soon occurred on the subject of Karknar wanting to split from Oscad. The results are as follows.
For the split: 49.7%
Against the split: 49.3%