To your relief you find the boy among those within the walls. He had defied you, but you cannot hold it against him. Seeing how he stood up to the Wyrm, perhaps you had been wrong to deny him a place among the army. You realize he is not a boy anymore. After all he has been through, standing firm by his choices, the term 'boy' no longer fits him. He has outgrown it, and Midge has become a man before your eyes. Telling him so, and how he did well, he smiles from ear to ear.

His survival is a small victory, the kind that keeps hope alive out here in the green. Instructing the army to rest, you know you will need all the hope you can get on your way to Raven's Reach, and then the Heart of Darkness.