Chapter Thirteen
He was dragged from his room and out of the villa. There were more men out here, and he was surrounded by a tight phalanx as he was pulled away and down the slope towards the forest. He was still naked, and the ground hurt his feet. It wasn’t till he was half way down the slope that he could think how little he wanted to go in the forest at night, least of all in the company of hostile strangers from the gods knew where. He began shivering, an effect increased by the cold air.
But there was nothing he could do to resist. He stumbled down the hill clutched by the men, and tripped at the bottom, rolling over on hard ground. They hauled him to his feet and took him into the forest.
It was completely black in here, but they seemed to know where they were going. It added to
