Chapter 56: Safe

"I tell them, if they are ever captured, to stay alive at all costs. If that means begging until more of us come to free them, then they should do it."

No matter what he said she knew she'd acted like a coward. She searched for something else to say to change the topic.

"How did all those raiders sneak up on you? I thought they couldn't get up the mountain without you knowing." She didn't believe any of his warriors would ever beg, but as least she didn't feel as if she should be hiding in a deep, dark hole anymore.

"They didn't sneak up on us. We allowed them to come up the mountain. But I never thought you'd go out of the cave. I was about to confine you to your tent when we saw you outside and the raiders taking you."