“I needed you.”
“I know.”
“I thought you chose them.”
“I know.”
“I thought you left us.”
“I know.”
- Elias is back.
Some of the pain belonged to those caught in it.
Then a horn rang out.
Three short explosions.
David became pale.
“What?”
David whispered, “He will set fire to the cabin.”
Elias looked at the roof.
Throw arrows.
Silas' men had prepared them.
“We’re leaving now,” Elias said.
“How?”
Elias pushed aside the heavy table.
Under it was a wide stone plate.
David looked at it.
“You said there was no cellar.”
“There is no.”
Elias hung his fingers under an iron ring.
“It’s a tomb.”
Mara looked at it.
“What?”
“My father built this cabin over the grave of an old hunter. I've expanded it years ago to keep the meat.'
The plate has been up.
The cold and black earth appeared underneath.
A narrow tunnel stretched to the ravine.
