"Now that we're all here, we can begin planning the siege," Jon Connington spoke up. "Winter has come, and we cannot afford to starve them out. The scouts have reported that the Kingslayer has stripped all the surrounding lands bare and has probably stacked his granaries to the brim. We have to storm the Golden Tooth. I have already sent men to cut down the nearby trees. We'll have ladders and battering rams ready to begin an assault tomorrow."