Chapter 23
I looked longingly back down the hill towards the forest. The trees that had been so darkly ominous moments before were looking like a haven of safety to me now.
They also looked about a million miles away. And the ground between where Thorbjorn and I sat and the tree line was getting pounded by rock after rock.
We couldn't go back. But we couldn't go forward either. Solvi was getting away, but that had become a minor point now. How were we going to get away?
"I'm going to divert their attention," Thorbjorn said to me. He had his sword in one hand and his axe in the other.
"What? Why?" I asked.
"So you can get away," he said. "Run, back down the path. Don't stop until you reach Villmark."
"I'm not leaving you," I said.
"You'll be perfectly safe," he said.
"That's not wh
