86 Ambushed!

“I think we must have been on the road for about a thousand years now,” Terrilo declared the next day as they steered their horses through a particularly thickly wooded area. “Terry, stop exaggerating.” Gavadiol laughed. “We're actually merely hours away now. I can't wait to see Dad again.” “Terry?” Lara snapped her head up to glare first at the prince and then at the dark haired acrobat. But before anyone could say anything else, a knife suddenly came flashing from the trees. Streaking straight at Ella, it passed clean through her chest and the girl dropped from her horse like a stone. Gavadiol was already moving before. The prince was truly a freak of nature. Somehow he managed to catch the blond girl before she hit the ground. At the same time, he was yelling out orders. “It’s an ambush! Quick, get off your horses! Use them as a shield. Get back into the trees.” Now arrows began to fly and Erom took a nasty one on the shoulder with a deep grunt but they all somehow managed