The Knights of the Hound galloped across the causeway, taking the road north until they found the path they were looking for. It ran east for a short space, then turned south, where the ground sloped up gradually towards the top of the cliffs. Hayley slowed them to a trot to conserve their strength, while further up the hill, a group of soldiers was forming a thin defense. Beyond them, the catapults rained down their fire on the defenseless city.
They spread out, with Hayley and Revi in the middle. "Hold the line," she yelled, above the beating of the horse's hooves. Slowly, but surely, they climbed, a constant formation moving against a rail-thin defense. A few arrows whizzed by, one even striking Dame Levina, but the armour protected them, and the knight simply snapped off the shaft tha
