The climb down had been treacherous, and three times one of them had almost fallen into the teeth of the sea far below. They wanted to wait for a moment when they reached the bottom, but Gwendolyn pushed them on.
“The tide is coming in and soon we won’t be able to get across to the stairs,” she said as loud as she could dare.
“We need to take them by surprise,” Lucius said, scanning the beach. “Maybe Dagon and I can sneak around behind them?”
Dagon peered over the rocks to see the jagged formations hidden in darkness beyond the light of the guards’ fire. “If we go in low and quiet, we should be able to do it,” he confirmed.
“All right,” Einion said. “You approach them from behind - ask them something - and once they turn toward you, Gwendolyn and I will attack from this side.”
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