They would make specific adjustments to the food situation once they got back. If necessary, they could send more people to help the trolls build a few more Thousand-Person Villages and ask the goblin brothers to recruit a few more workers and build another tractor to help the trolls plow their fields.
The food at the harbor should last a few months! Sending them back to Aerie Peak was definitely out of the question. For one thing, construction there was unfinished; for another, it still could not produce enough food to sustain itself.
Moving so many people there would mean consuming a great deal of food just transporting supplies. For now, they only needed to send over the remaining dwarf soldiers from Mez'dra's army to garrison the place and guard against trouble from the Witherbark trolls. Once Aerie Peak was nearly finished, they could gradually relocate everyone in batches.
Before the two of them had finished discussing the details, Alleria came over with Daelin, his wife, and a little girl. Yu Lin Bloodhawk glanced at the girl a couple of times and thought, So this must be Jaina!
"I promised to take them to the Hinterlands!" Alleria said. "She's such a lovable little girl."
"Alleria... think this through! You aren't helping them. You're jeopardizing their child's future. We have nothing there. Who are you going to have teach her? Are you going to let her run wild everywhere like the refugee children?" After saying that, Yu Lin Bloodhawk himself froze for a moment.
He had never really given serious thought to the refugee children's education. This war would last six or seven years at least, and by the time it ended, quite a few of those children would probably be adults.
*No wonder I always feel as though something is