Doesn't appear so.

You're up to the gate into the Inner City, the doors open up and three guards walk out, their shields and weapons ready to attack. As you peer through the doors you see many other warriors standing just behind the door, sprawled out on the streets, tents, cots and beds set up. "In for the long haul..." you mumble to yourself

"Who are you? Why are you alone? Why should we trust your word?" one of the guards speaks firmly in your direction

"Look." you hold your arms out, away from your body "I bring no harm. First off, what can I call you? My name is Darien."

The guard shuffles in his step just briefly before taking a more casual stance "Marcus."

"Okay Marcus." you begin "I've been living in Rathkin for the past 5 years. You may have heard of me but I was just over competing in the Grand Tournament of Nillix. I lost, but still got 2nd place." you shrug his direction "Many of you should remember my name, my face...I heard news of what was happening so I traveled all the way from the Syn..." you stop, catching yourself "From Nillix." you correct yourself "I wanted to defend my city, I needed to defend my city."

Marcus turns and talks to the two other guards beside him, whispering into each others ears, it's about 30 seconds later he turns back to you "Welcome home Darien! You're lucky Tarren over here remembers you battling for us in Nillix..." Marcus lets out a sigh "Unfortunately I couldn't travel to Nillix to see the fight. Come on in though!" he gestures you to enter "Sorry about the defensive position...lots of spies around, just actually caught almost a full group of those Syndicate bastards." he smiles through his helmet

You stay calm "Looks like Ashe was caught..." you think to yourself as you walk up, shaking Marcus's hand as well as the other two guards and then make your way into the inner city of Rathkin.

"So...I need to get to the castle." you let out "I need to speak with the King."

Marcus just laughs at you "hahaha! Shit man...good luck with that. The place has been on lock-down. You can try if you want but I doubt it."

"Lock down? Just from the battle? For safety?" you continue to question "How do you get your orders?"

"Rumor has it we captured the Sunrider leader. Cold hard bitch that one was apparently." Marcus chuckles "Who knows what the king is doing to that bitch. Hopefully putting her in her place if you know what I mean." he gentle nudges your shoulder as he gives you a wink. "I have to say...those Sunrider whores have tight fucking bodies and the way they ride those horses and tigers...just think how well they'd ride a cock!" Marcus and a handful of other guards laugh out loud.

That pissed you off quite a bit but you couldn't show it in your body language, you didn't want to screw anything up "Crazy. If Rathkin attacked the Syndicate why would their leader just march into the city with a small group?" still trying to be clueless.

"They didn't know we were going to attack them. After the first Errian wave, she just walked right in. Probably assumed that was the end of the battle. She had a small group of people with her, invited them straight into the castle. We got orders to attack both Errian and the Syndicate during the next attack wave that we knew was coming. Castle has been on lock down since."

"Interesting..." you ponder slightly "and you said you caught a group of spies?"

"Not too long ago, captured and have them over in the Tavern over there" Marcus points to a building across the street "About 10 of them left, slaughtered the other handful..." he trails off and licks his lips "Petite feisty Redhead one was..." his hand goes down to his crotch "Never had me one of those before." once again Marcus laughs out loud. "Although she was apparently a higher up so she got taken to the castle...still...

You swallow hard, thoughts playing in your head.

"Oh don't worry there Darien, maybe after this battle is over you can claim one of them yourself. Some of our guards may try to indulged themselves but if word ever got out, their lives would be gone. You should know that. Commander Rixx is against any type of **** or **** to captive woman." a few grumbles go around the soldiers "That's not to say...some may take that risk though to have first chance at some fresh Syndicate cunt..." he once again trails off.

Again, you're kind of pissed off at his response. Typical soldiers though, take what they want. "Well, thanks for the info Marcus. I may go up to the castle gate to see if I can get an audience inside." you shake hands with Marcus.

He doesn't release his grip though and instead pulls you in close, whispering into your ear "If you go visit the captives...just a piece of advice, keep your mouth shut. We're all Rathkin here...no need to back stab your brothers." he squeezes your grip even harder "If you see anyone dressed similarity to Commander Rixx, ya know, a somewhat golden armored outfit, don't do anything, they will report it. Otherwise, if you want to take the chance..." Marcus winks at you "Although, a friend told me some of those cunts are already well worn even though we just got them about an hour ago..." he chuckles to himself as he releases your grip "But you didn't hear that from me. We Rathkin soldiers don't take advantage of captive woman." he states once more loudly, which is followed by a few chuckles from other guards.

"Thanks again Marcus." you nod at him before thinking of your next stop.

You could go straight to the castle and see if you could get an audience with the King. Apparently Luna, Eleanor & Ashe should all be inside the castle. Although, you could make a pit stop over where the captives are, check out the situation, maybe...indulge in some war time fun...or even see who is there and try to save them? Although that could also risk your life and you are on a mission right now, so maybe it's not the best time for it? You still don't know where Lexie is though, she could be dead, she could have gotten away somewhere, she even could have been with Ashe and is one of the captives. It makes your blood pump a little harder "maybe you should at least go make sure she's not there..."