[Really, in the enclosed space especially, he'd probably be right - unarmed and without enough room to use the Tarnhelm, Spade's kind of fragile and what happens when you take away a caster's magic in a fight right now.]

A couple weeks; I've been keeping mostly to myself - I'm not much good for what's been going on lately.

[So someone used to direct combat; that was another bit of useful information.]

We're all going to have to fight sooner or later, but people are, I think, jumpy after what you must've just missed; there was a fight with them and their Minions - it was very one-sided, from what I saw.