They were both covered in blood, looking at each other in horror. The painful whine grabbed their attention as the disbelief assuaged. Quintus, smiled in between his spluttering coughs caused by the blood that dripped over his chin. He had saved her. Ewan quickly assessed the wound where the spear had entered and exited. There was nothing that could be done for him other than to be with him.
“I was too scared to run, but never too scared to die.” Quintus said to Aelia, as she gently touched his cheek.
He used the last of his determination to hand the leather tube he had been hugging to his chest, to Aelia.
“Use it to stop him.” He urged Aelia.
Watching their torn expressions, Quintus realised that the soldiers were approaching, and his laboured breath indicated that his own end w
