"One at a time. One at a time. Come on, come on!"
"But it's dark!"
"And scary!'
"It won't be as long as you stick together. Now, come on!"
Not all the members of the rebellion consisted of fighters.
While it was true in the slavery circles that the [Mines of Malevolence] was the place to dump unruly slaves, political prisoners, and prisoners of war for a quick buck, not all slavers had access to such vicious and valuable stock.
Some simply had slaves that were too sick, too weak, or too young to be used for much else save light chores.
And at that point, most people buying slaves would go for the ones who were at least trained in such tasks it had some level of physical beauty to be worth such expenditures.
As such, the number of people in the mines that could actually fight was about thirty percent of the populace, while the remaining seventy were people unable to properly fight, but could still provide logistical support.
