Bandage‘I don’t know your name,’ she said.
‘Leeth,’ he replied. ‘Leeth irMardak.’ He managed a feeble smile. ‘I was trying to help the MageGate to get away when I heard your voice. We were moving in that direction.’ He pointed.
‘Do you think it’s safer that way?’ She stroked Mikey’s back and held him close at her side. He was still whimpering. ‘What happened out there?’ she asked Leeth. ‘Did they carry on duelling?’
The fleetwalker stammered that he had not seen and did not know.
Irenya searched her memory. To the west the forest stretched for leagues and eventually petered out in escarpments and bogs. Moving that way would hopefully take them further from what she guessed was the centre of any conflict, but it also meant they would be moving away from assistance.
No choice. Who won?
