Lith knew she was right and that if Commander Berion decided to assign him a partner to compensate for his unreliability, not only his current mission, but also the entirety of his remaining stay in the corps would become a nightmare.
The undead crisis had put everyone on their toes and one of the reasons was that usually an operative missing a call now meant that they had been killed or captured.
Every person that disappeared in the wilds was assumed dead or in the process of being turned into an undead since it wouldn't make their communication rune vanish. Both the Kingdom and the undead Courts were recruiting the best elements they could find to fight the ongoing war.
Things were becoming so dire that both the Mage Association and the army had enforced a buddy system, to protect their best operatives from being "recruited" by the other side.