[Combat trained? Combat trained? Someone was teaching these children to fight? Not to defend themselves, but to fight? He can feel his anger surge again and he steps back, struggling to contain it.]

Who.

[It comes out in a growl, low and dangerous.]

Who was training them to do this? This isn't something that children should be taught to do. And as for your mission - there's ways other than deadly force! Children, elders... maybe they can fight but that doesn't mean they deserve to die!