SAROYA
We are surrounded. My back is to Edin’s as I whisper.
“Can we take them?” I ask him and I hear him c***k his neck. At the same time, I feel for my dagger at my waist and I feel empty space.
Shit, I think. I must have misplaced it at that goddamn cave of the Mandrok. I never saw it after I lost it and opened my eyes to find the skull beneath my fingers.
“We sure can.” He says in answer to my question. His beasts snarl and growl at the same moment and I raise my hands uselessly. I have no idea what I can do with them but I do know if these people become a great threat I will react well enough.
“Ready?” He asks.
No. But these people did not ask whether I was ready before they decided to ambush us.
“Yes.” I say instead.
The faces around me are terrifying, made more so by th
