The older man clicked his teeth with annoyance. “What madness is this?” he muttered. “If you are going to take a captive, boy, ’tis important that she does not run free, doing whatsoever she will. Seeing as you have not done a deed so bold before, perhaps that detail of captivity escaped you—”
captivity“There is nowhere for her to flee, Rodney.”
He snorted. “As if that halted her yesterday. The woman has no sense at all. What manner of fool would choose to risk a night alone in the woods over what security a knight might offer?”
Only a very frightened woman. Angus thought again of the terror the woman had shown of him and wondered at its root.
She halted beside Angus and Rodney, evidently unaware of any dissent between them, or else choosing to ignore it. Rodney glowered at her, while
