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A feounded had already arrived and Tobias was rushing fro to care for their injuries When Tobias hadto beco He was doing farthe, and even appeared to have perforeries A fast and hard A as his assistant and co enough to watch the two of them They operated as a teaether

Arabbed a bucket of water and rushed toward us She offered me the ladle, and while I drank, she inspected the cut on er When I finished, I handed the ladle to Mott and Fink, then Amarinda and I walked over to Tobias

His eyes ide but calestured to the wounded man before hi what I can"

"You’ll do this so this way You must leave"

"No!" Tobias continued to sew the wound of the y, and I’ll only get in the way here as a regent But I can help save these men"

Amarinda touched ht save up here estured across this camp and said, "Within minutes, this whole hillside will be a battlefield You and Fink must all leave now, or they will take the princess A second, Tobias finished the knot for the wound and set his tools down He took Amarinda by the hand as she called for help to load the injured athered several soldiers who had remained in the camp and then located new horses for the two of us He helped ?"

When he and I were alone, Mott rarely addressed me with any title, and it startled me until I realized he had intended to speak toTobias and A we could do was to hold off any early arrivals

I turned back to Mott and withdrew rinned and withdrew his oord, followed by the other soldiers behind us Together, we urged the horses forward and rode toward the battle

We quickly roup on horseback, too close to ca battled this far forward, and I was eager to take part in this fight We dispensed with the group easily enough, and then charged onward

There was only one soldier behind thee as a pirate and looked equally as h to push round and rolled to avoid being crushed by either of our animals He started to ain This time when he did, Mott crashed into hi ra back into my horse’s saddle, but only had tiroup The first feere big, arrogant, and had clearly underestiry This was enerations Until everything else had been taken froht, Jaron!"

The warning came froht a ed for the ht He had a quiver on his back and carried a bow in the sa fro battle-ax

He sawand reached for an arrow, but by then I was close enough to give him a deep cut that also severed the cord attached to his battle-ax As he started to fall frorabbed on to his bow and the arrow he had drawn Once they were in my hands, I notched the arroisted around, and shot for the man with the mace I actually would’ve missed him, but at the last moment, his horse darted to the left and my arrow hit the man’s stomach His mace was still inonto his own head

More ofus now, both from behind and up ahead, but ht Tobias and Amarinda an extra fifteen h time The road ahead of thees If Tobias chose to stay with the wounded in their wagons, he and Amarinda wouldn’t have a chance They needed every ive them