`` thank you , '' amara said `` stupid , but brave what are you doing here , schoolgirp '' `` i 'm a cursor now , pirellus i 've come to warn you of an attack before you get buried in a marat horde `` `` how thoughtful of you and you are speaking to me instead of the garrison commander , because ... '' `` i am speaking to you because you are the ranking capable officer the count is unconscious , pluvus an idiotic politico , and the watch commander a centurion without the rank to order a general mobilization you will order it and send to riva for reinforcements `` pirellus 's brows shot up `` on whose authority ? ''