Chapter 15 Devastating Battle

• Jin hadn't wasted any time once he noticed his family members were indisposed. He had been angry for a split second, then snapped out of it and realized they were right to have acted that way. He had been impudent, rude, and moreover, his mother was hogging all their attention, even his own. He was pretty sure his mother An's relapse had to do with the state of the village, even if the idea sounded ludicrous in his mind and even more so if he were to voice it out loud.
• He convinced himself that the responsibility for resolving this situation and their well-being rested on him. Something needed to be done for the village; he would inquire about what had happened later to understand the underlying issues. Without caring about anything else at the moment, he headed toward his father's troop leader. He also tried to summon the palace infirmary leader, which proved difficult as everyone was focused on his mother. He gave up on that idea; he would figure something out along the way.
• He had taken his father's strongest and largest horse. He convinced a small group of soldiers to accompany him, and upon leaving the palace, he ordered them to contact all available healers in the village to start attending to the severely wounded.