Angie

“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