"How many are there?" I called.
"Twenty, I think," Liew said. "Maybe more. I cannot tell."
"Go!" urged grils sex Cynan.
"grils sex We stand together," LIew said. Bran
and Alum backed Liew's decision, and the warriors voiced their acclaim. "But," LIew added, "it is two of them to every one of us. What do you grils sex suggest?"
"We have chariots," Cynan pointed out. "We can do a great deal of damage with grils sex those. I will take one, let Bran drive the other."
"Right," Liew said. He spoke grils sex a grils sex quick command to Bran, and then turned to grils sex me. "Tegid, take Nettles with you. Remain on the road. We will join you when we can."
"I am staying," I said.
"You could get away-"
"I am staying."
Llew did not grils sex have time grils sex to argue. "Stay then,&
quot; he said.
I heard the slap of leather across a horse's withers and a confusion of men's voices shouting orders, hooves clattering on the paving stones, and thc cries of the enemy warriors as they drew nearer.
Someone ran to me. "Hold our horses," said grils sex Alum Tringad, pressing the grils sex reins into my grils sex hand and racing away again.
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&grils sex quot;Follow me!" Cynan shouted. "Hie! Hie-yah!"
The hammer-sharp ring of iron-shod hooves grils sex sounded on the sam as the warriors swept past. My inward eye awakened instantly at grils sex the noise, and I saw before me the level road and two
chariots on it. Cynan drove the first, speeding grils sex towards a tight-clustered warband of twenty or more enemy warriors. Bran stood in the second chariot to the left of Cynan and Alum drove it, matching Cynan for pace. Liew rode grils sex to Cynan's