Angie

“Wow, you have a very confused and amusing view of this situation,” Peril said. “We’re not your prisoners. You couldn’t take me prisoner even with an army of IceWings. Not even if all of them had arrogant foreheads like yours. There isn’t actually a world in which you need to decide whether to ‘release’ me. I released myself a long time ago, but thanks anyway.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Thorn turned to study the ground behind them. There were six horsemen visible. They had reined in about eighty meters away, waiting for the rest of their force. As the Skandians watched, another dozen riders appeared, shouldering their way out of the trees and forming up on the narrow bank behind the first half dozen. “Stay undercover, everyone,” Thorn cautioned. There was no guarantee that a rider in the rear ranks, concealed from their view, mightn’t start shooting while they were unprepared. But his warning was unnecessary. The Herons stayed crouched behind the barrier of the earth wall and their locked-together”
― John Flanagan, Return of the Temujai