I look at both elvish women, alternatively. If I wanted to suicide I could do so at a more comfy and warm place there wasn't any need on going North.
-You are seriously proposing running without more directions than "run that way because it is as good as any other way". Let me paraphrase what you want to do, to make sure I got everything right. You want to find a key to be able to read the map that you are holding. You want to run North, at this very moment, expecting full opposition of a demon's army that is able to take a toll on the walls and defenders of what appears to be a fortified city. Your plan is to simply cut through them. And you want to do that now, immediately, instantly, right now. I hope that North is the direction in which the key is, I am not sure as I didn't get that. I hope the demons kill us, for if they do not hunger and cold will be our end.
Quite exasperated I mumble and curse under my breath, with words not befitting an artist of my rank.
-I am not ready I won't be ready in a long time for a suicide, but yours is the story of the century, and I am going to tell it, even if I die. But take my words, if I die out there, because you just wanted to run North without even considering taking damned rations or dressing yourselves properly to withstand the cold, I will haunt you for eternity.