[Yuan does observe the conflict, and it gives him some pause -- what is it, here, that makes Kratos look like this? Is it incoming risk, or simply deep thoughts?]

[...No. Kratos did not let them take the crossing that would surely have been a deathtrap. Yuan -- trusts -- that if they are about to walk into something worse, Kratos will say something.]

[It is surely insanity, to rest the lives of so many on the willingness of a prisoner of war to volunteer information. And yet: Yuan trusts Kratos.]

[The rains, therefore, are almost certainly incidental. But there are there nevertheless. Yuan reviews geography in his head, comes to the same conclusion. That earlier scouted track, the slope and the canyon out of this main path of the river, is their best option for storm shelter. Nevertheless he hesitates -- there is a glance cast at Kratos --]

[He cannot ask. Yuan acts on the available knowledge, and trusts, and starts issuing orders.]