Chapter Twenty-One
Follow
THE OFFICER KNIGHT broke eye contact with Rin, thrust his black sword into the scabbard at his side and turned away, sprinting. Seften, Rhoin and Paetoric acquired a sword and shield each from the possession of the slain enemy horsemen, and, with Rin, they took off following after the officer knight.
The horsemen, though none looked back they did know, were gaining ground quickly. The running path the officer knight took was in a steady direction, but this path did lead within the cover of a forest.
Dante jumped ahead of the others and turned, waiving his arms wildly, signaling the few to turn, which they did, and Dante had lead them into a completely shadowed-black ground, behind bramble and fallen tree, where they all crouched and hid.
Dante had purposefully lead the others in this manner, for the enemy horsemen were near enough to see Dante signal a change of path, where they changed their paths as well with intentions to follow and catch, however as it was never a true change of path, the horsemen charged past the unseen hiding party in the different direction, never to catch them. Dante poked his head above a bush and grinned. “Oops!” he said with a shocked look in his eyes. “I’d hate to be them reporting back to Command that they had been outrun by few prisoners on foot whilst they rode many on horse!” And with a shrug, “Oh well.”
They all rose from hiding and continued following the officer knight, safe from the lost enemy horsemen.
The wood did thin out into a treeless field, and the moon’s dull light seemed bright and burning to their eyes from the contrast their eyes had adjusted to of the thick wood’s lightless grounds.
But on the end of that stretch of night-lit field were the guarded rocky shore docks of the enemy! Escape by sea!
This would be the last stand to a final escape.
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