[This sort of knight doesn't care to be mocked, and when they do finally reunite with his company, this tribune will find men much less tolerant than he. Bennet quickly pushes the offense aside, however, lifting a hand to his chin as he considers this new information.]

Has your Legion a treaty with him then? His men must have at least passed through these lands from the south as they made their way to Jerusalem. Saladin's force is thirty thousand men strong, it is said, surely your Legion could not have missed a passing army of that size...? [The longer they speak, the more confusing all of this becomes. A force of eight thousand men, spread out across a province as large as this, is not daunting, but nor is it inconsiderable. Why, then, has he heard no mention of it at all before?]