[Gold has to resist the urge to cringe visibly. He may have been a few months at the front, avoiding actual battle by sheer luck and numbers and one well-timed sledgehammer incident, but he knows the ins and outs of warfare enough to know that morale is the most dangerous thing to lose.] Then it's a war already lost until then.

[Never let it be said that Gold doesn't immediately get to business. He wants to leave, but leaving won't happen unless they're proactive.] I might have some experience in this.

[If he can turn the tides on an Ogre War and manipulate an entire realm to his whims all for the sake of getting his son back, he can surely do the same here to get back to his grandson.] The key is knowing what they want- besides the obvious of course. Desperation will drive a person to do nearly anything. After that, it's just a matter of knowing where to move them.