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"Hey, I see someone over there! Don't let 'em get away!"

"Captain!" William's voice is a frantic whisper, looking over his shoulder and the men coming closer - oh please don't be going after them, please-? "Go left, go left, go left-"

Cassius does so, dodging into the alleyway William had so eloquently demanded he go into - then they run. William keeps glancing over his shoulder- one knight is tailing behind them uncomfortably close, horrid grin and wide eyes locked on them. Where did the other one go-?

The captain lets out a gasp and forces William to stop as well, drawing his bow back, trying to step back but Cassius is holding firm.

"Aww, lookie here, Caulder," the one in front of William says. Trapped like rats, these uns."

The other one - Caulder, apparently - just giggles like a twisted child. Cassius goes to draw his sword, but he had given it to that blasted woman. He quickly adjusts his aim and he gets his dagger instead, holding it out in front of him. William is pointing his arrow directly at the face of the knight behind them. This is hopeless. The two men stand back to back as the two knights speak. Cassius can't think of any possible way to handle this. He can feel William shaking from fear, but he can guess William's face is blank.

"Whatcha think, Caulderrr?" the first speaks again, voice thick with.. something. Neither Cassius or Will want to name that emotional. "Kill 'em right here, or tease 'um?"

"Princess!" Caulder replies, gesturing to Lady Maren. His voice is freakishly high-pitched. "Make her squeaall like a lil' pig, ehehe.."

"Yes, of course, but what of th-" A steel-tipped arrow directly into the head forces the first knight to silence. He looks at William with rage in his eyes before his light is snuffed out. As the knight crumbles to the ground, William grabs Cassius by his sleeve and they run back from whence they came. William nearly falls into the street as he rounds the corner - Caulder, for whatever reason, does not immediately follow.

"Forget safest, we need fastest!" he gasps out.

"No joke," Cassius replies.

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Avery lets out another cry of fear as two Karsusians come at him with their axe-spears, drawing his sword just in time to block a hit that could have easily cut his head into halves. The redhead shouts again as he is pushed backwards into the alleyway, like anyone could even help right now. He's on his own - he draws his sword and keeps stepping back - oh this is so much worse than training. This is so much worse. This is horrible. He's going to die-

The soldier in front stops walking, causing the second to sort of bump into him. Avery's expression shifts to hopeless fear to confusion.

"What is the meaning of-"

"He's barely older than us-" the front soldier starts,

"What does it matter?!" the second interrupts, "Kill him, Tiberius!"

Tiberius grimaces, looking at Avery for a moment before turning to his comrade, halberd lowered, "Kedrick, I can't-"

Kedrick pushes him aside, glaring at Tiberius like he's the dumbest person on this planet. "Then I will. Oh, the commander will not be happy to hear you're still soft-" When Kedrick turns his head, he can see that Avery has started to climb up the wall.

"HEY!" Kedrick goes to throw his spear, but Tiberius grabs it, yanking it from his ally's hand and turning it around. He uses the wooden handle to knock Kedrick in the head - the man stumbles into the wall.

"You traitorous cur!" Kedrick growls, turning his halberd onto Tiberius.

"Better than a murderer!" Tiberius screams in response.

As Avery frantically climbs up and over the wall, he can hear the two fighting amongst themselves. The last thing Avery sees before he drops back down on the other side of the wall is Kedrick driving his halberd into the Tiberius's chest.

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@Elevation It's called a 'jump in' for a reason

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Writing fight scenes is the bane of my existence so have an escort mission and a terror-stricken kid instead hahaha

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"Defend the city Cassius! I am no use here on the walls. I will go to the Chapel to see if I can help with the wounded!"

Cassius nodded, following Maren down the steps - it's the closest set of steps down - going to get his dagger from his belt-

But then the noblewoman tumbles, fainting. Cassius catches her before she can possibly knock herself in the head on the stone steps, gently setting her down on the ground instead. He kneels close to her, checking her pulse and her breathing before cursing under his breath. She's alive, she's just exhausted. She has every right to be, she hasn't been sleeping well, and then all this? It's too much for this woman's heart and mind to take.

His duty, as a hired bodyguard, is to protect her first, any orders she gives come second - if he were to leave her there, she was an easy target for the Karsusians and they - nay, Mago - will have won. He has to take her to the Chapel. Surely they'd have the sense and morality to not attack those protected by those walls. Surely. It'd be the greatest offense if they breached those walls..

He picks her up and puts her over his shoulder-

"Captain?" a familiar voice calls from the back of the defending force - William.

"Will? Oh thank the Gods- William, abandon position, I need you to watch my back!"

William releases one more arrow to the fight before running to his captain. "Is that Lady Maren? Is she alright-?"

"Yes, she's only faint. She needs to get to the walls of the Chapel."

William nods, "I've walked the city a bit, I know a possible safe way 'round to the Chapel, just in case the Karsusians get through the first round of defenses."

"Stay close behind and guide me, then."

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After ducking into cover with Annabeth, Avery was frozen. This is what he had wanted, fantasized about, dreamed of! But being in the midst of it? This is insane. This is insane.

His breathing was shallow and he was partially deaf to the chaos only just to his left. He didn't want this! His knuckles are white from gripping his sword's handle so tightly, but he didn't have the sense to draw it from its scabbard. Avery stood there, listening-but-not-really to the chaos at the gates, stomach in knots and unable to force himself to move.

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why did I name like half of the dozen nobodies Cassius is in command over they're probably gonna fuckin die ;n;

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Avery sat by the dwindling fire of his camp, nursing away at a bottle of ale as he used a stick to tease the flames awake. He'd been put in charge, so to speak, in Cassius's absences due to Lady Maren. God, Avery hates it in Tamberle. It reeks of the fire-fens even inside the city, there's too many people - he likes a crowd, and there's still too many! - and Cassius had told them all explicitly to just lie low unless given direct orders, which is the exact opposite of why he joined this damned group. He wanted action! Adventure! Treasure! Damsels in distress! Sure, he's eaten and drank better in the last month than he has in his entire nineteen years, but still! He longed for something more. Something meaningful. Something-

"Wake up!" comes a feminine voice of which Avery does not recognize. "Prepare for battle! Your captain has commanded you to rally to the walls!"

Avery grins as his brothers-in-arms start to rouse awake. An uninvited guest! This is more like it, even if only a bit! He stands up and draws his shortsword at her, using it almost like a pointer. "And who do you think you are, woman, to boss us around? You don't know our captain!" Avery can sense two - maybe three? - of his allies coming from behind to.. well, to back him up, ha!

As this strange woman unsheathes her sword, she raises it high, allowing the firelight to illuminate and reveal that the sword is actually their captain's sword - it's hard to mistake that etched blade for any other. Avery lowers his in response, and he can sense the one of the two men take a step back, as if embarrassed for jumping to conclusions. Avery, frankly, was also somewhat flushed, and it's not just because of the alcohol.

"Surely you heard the war horns?" The woman asks, "The city is under attack. Captain Cassius has ordered us to be ready to defend the walls!"

"Alright, men!" Avery raises his voice, "You heard her - suit up and arm yourselves!" He starts to walk around, making sure his voice is getting to every man there - he gives one man a kick in the side. "Get up, William, you lazy ass! We don't have all night! They could be tearing through the city as we speak!"

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It didn't take long at all for the men to properly suit up - only maybe 4 of the dozen men had a good set of steel-plated armor, the rest had light leathers. The follow the woman - who they now know as Annabeth - and Avery, swords as well as bows and arrows at the ready just in case of-

SPLAT

Three men let out a surprised cry as Avery stops mid-step and turns around. He grimaces, and then looks down at the broken sack of, eh.. fertilizer in the midst of them. One of the three behind him let out an uncharacteristically girlish shout as he frantically tries to get the manure off of his leather armor, "I just bought this, for fuck's sake!" Classic Erik.

"We need to hurry this up," another voice says - Arthurus. "if they're chucking cow shite across the wall, they're likely to bombard us with worse."

Avery nods, gesturing for the men to start running. "Other than the timing, the plan is the same - Erik, Gregory, Art, you're on the wall with the archers; Quincy, William, and Aldwin, you're at the gate with your bows; the rest of us are with the footmen. Aye?"

"Aye!" a chorus of twelve men.. and then Erik's voice chimes in, "what about the lady?"

"Does it really matter?" Arthurus retorts, "She has a war hammer- she's probably stronger than your arse!"

"Hey now, it takes strength to draw this string back!" Erik insists indignantly.

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"Do you see that banner there?" Maren points to the banner as the boar riders escape back from whence they came, "It is of human design. Why would the orcs carry that?"

Cassius squints into the darkness where Maren is pointing, but by the time he locates the pitch dark silhouette against the black-blue sky, it's gone over the hill. He shrugs his shoulders slightly, "I'm not exactly a seer of any sort, milady - I have not the faintest idea.. unless you happen to know an orc personally?" Cassius briefly scoff-laughs before making a note of Maren's sudden onset of exhaustion. Smile faded and replaced with one of neutrality, he gestures vaguely in the general direction of Maren's quarters, "Perhaps we should retire for the night- or, rather, you retire."

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I'm thinking I might need to write up some more formal rules to keep the anarchy at bay

@Polybius

How dare you suggest we not let anarchy reign supreme?

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"Mmmm, pork," - the beast in the fens

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Mago, Maren's brother, is the one who hired the Karsusians though?