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“They will have us surrounded,” explained Eser Vir. “Yet they will not attack separately. They will wait until each of their warbands are ready, then attack us from multiple directions. We need to force them to fight us from one direction, or otherwise defeat each group of them alone before they can coordinate.”

“We have no way of doing the latter, and this valley is too wide for the former,” said Caden. “You mean to take us back into the mountains.”

“We would be able to hold a narrow pass against them,” said Eser Vir.

Suddenly a cry came out from somewhere behind them in the column. “Men running towards us from the south and east!” Called an exotic voice.

“They are trying to stop us reaching the passes,” said the Herald, before his voice turned like a war-horn that bellowed across the valley. “All men, run!”

Soon the rhythmic marching of the column turned into the beating of boots that ran across hard ground, and the more they ran the more the path of their column became churned into a trail of mud. In the distance around them the wild figures were running down the mountainsides and hills and up through the valley after them, and with each passing second more seemed to appear from the wild and let out shrill war cries that conjoined into a terrifying chorus of violent hysteria."

- FIN

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