Chapter 219: With the Hydrogians
Irene’s shoulders slouched, and she felt brief relief.
However, a detail she couldn’t look past was the fact that the man in front of her seemed to have doubled in age in the past few years—knight armor made everyone look so much older. Not only that, but he was knighted while she was still not.
It made the bitter taste that Felix should have been knighted by then all the more real.
"We must make haste!" a different knight shouted from where he was on his horse. "Only one dire wolf. Plenty more to go."
"Back onto your horse, apprentice," Alix ordered the girl. "Arrows for now. We’ve bought plenty."
She immediately did as she was told, seeking out Sorrel, who ran into the tree line a bit further on.
The horse came to her when she whistled, and she mounted the animal easily once he was closer.
Since the others had already headed towards the barking wolves, she did the same.
With each arrow she shot off, she had to bite off the cloth at the tip so that her aim would be more accurate and she could shoot farther. It was a bit of a pain, but worth it when she landed an arrow in a wolf’s eye first and then the goblin’s neck.
The others were having similar luck with their own shots.
It wasn’t until there were no dire wolves actively pursuing them that the knights jumped off, and she did the same.