It's not about "getting my fill", [ she returns in a voice just as low, sounding a little offended despite the fact that he's right on the money. Of course she's been thinking about killing the soldiers, and of course she'd do it with no small amount of personal satisfaction. She's made for subtler work, but this is a bit too mild even for her. ] We're doing all this to ruin them for the battlefield, aren't we? After going to the trouble of infiltrating their camp, it seems like a waste to do so little setting them back.

[ A dead horse is even less use than a tired, unbalanced one, with the exception of the meat they'd provide. But if they become "sick" later, rather than suddenly exsanguinating in one night, they might be able to circumvent even that. ]

But I suppose it wouldn't do to veer from our instructions, if what they've told us can be believed.