"They die for real, forever." Lohan looked at the blue and silver seal at the end of the announcement. "The elves are citizens, they're people with families, with centuries of life. Each one who falls is a permanent loss for the city. But us..."
"We only lose a level and come back," Alice said, softly.
"We lose a level, lose the accumulated experience, lose a few days of grinding, and come back. If we die ten times, we come back ten times. If we die a hundred times and have a hundred levels to lose, we'll come back a hundred times." He shook his mass, in a gesture that, in a human, would have been a shrug. "For a city, it's much cheaper to spend Players than to spend citizens. That's why they called every guild. It's not because they can't deal with the creature. It's because they don't want to pay the price of dealing with it."
The room went silent.
