Bab 296: Maybe mortals really are- (Part two)

"But the dwarves would have lost and-" The dwarves were clearly at a disadvantage.

Jori chuckled. "Sometimes you can be naïve too. Though- I don't dislike that about you." He squirmed around. I was disgusted and he probably knew that. "Ahem! Anyway, they were getting backed by the goblins you killed. They were going to use that whole city as bait. That was why they never exterminated the goblins. Everything was already set up. And as you might expect, the dwarves had very high firepower and they were going to use that- if only a certain someone hadn't shown up. And once you got rid of their ace in the hole, they became desperate, didn't they?"

I hated to admit this but- I was played on more than just one occasion. And now that I thought about it- a lot of stuff did make sense, albeit in not the way I hoped.

I sighed. "And I can trust your words because?"