79 Friends From Afar

Gavadiol looked to the shore. His friends were nowhere in sight. They had gone a long distance for a reason. He looked around despairingly. He would perish at the hands of these alligators after all. Even the beasts seemed to know he was cornered. He could see them pushing back and grouping for the attack. Gavadiol stopped swimming. Any moment now, it would be over. He would not succeed after all. He would never be the king of Aerithor. He would never see his father again. He would never be able to tell Lara Trarko he loved her… He closed his eyes and waited for the painful end. Only it didn’t come. Instead, he heard the sound of something - no, several things swishing through the air at once. He popped his eye open and not for the first time that day, he was again amazed at what he was seeing. Arrows were sticking out of the heads of the alligators all around him. Even as he watched, another rain of arrows came cascading from the direction of the shore and found targets with dead