Although they took so many precautions, they did not know that Maesi archers were stationed on the rocks of the eastern mountains, waiting for them to pay them with the same coin. The detachment consisted of almost 100 people. Iris did not understand why there were so many just for a meeting, but did not comment on the Lord Commander's decision.
He did not lose sight of her all the way. Not even at night, when he made room for her near him, when he chose the trees under which to sleep, not very close to his body anyway, but to be close to him on any occasion.
As soon as they entered the pass in front of the Moutai fortress, the Maesi archers began firing arrows at them. Because the shields were always at hand, being warriors, the shadows managed to take shelter in a defensive formati
