Here’s chapter 9!!!

It was the next day and they were walking. They had been walking for a long time and Alan’s leg throbbed. The arrow was no longer in it, they had taken it out the night before, but it still hurt with a throbbing, pulsing pain. He thought it would have felt better after they got the arrow out, but it didn’t. It still hurt, it almost hurt more than before. It screamed for his attention and it worried him, should anything hurt this bad? But what worried him the most was where they were going, Harbone!

He didn’t know where it was but it didn’t sound like some where he wanted to go. He didn’t like it at all and he definitely didn’t want someone with a name like Captain Redthaw taking them there. He didn’t want to walk into what could be a death trap, actually he didn’t want to walk at all. His leg felt like it was going to fall off at any moment, but he walked on. His arms stretched out between David and the short, scrawny buck Meeker.

Meeker had said that if he focused on something besides his leg it might help with the pain until they got back to Harbone. Alan tried to think of anything and everything other than his throbbing leg, but the pain was too bad. He couldn’t think of anything else besides the intense pain in his leg and where in Natalia they were going.

David on the other hand didn’t seem to care where they were going, he just walked and talked to Meeker. Ky didn’t seem to care either he was talking to the grey doe whose name Alan still didn’t know, but whoever she was she was so pretty. But Ky talked to her the whole time.

Alan looked away no one seemed to care that they could be walking straight into a trap. A sharp pain shot up his leg and he clinched his teeth against the pain. Why, why did it hurt so much? He wanted to scream out in pain, but he couldn’t, he mustn’t show how weak he was, not when they were taking them to a place called Harbone. No telling what they would do to him.

He wanted to run away, but he couldn’t, because one he couldn’t leave David and two the thought of running made his leg shake. But then up ahead he saw a gate, a big horrifying dark gate in the ground. Then he heard Captain Redthaw say, “Well here we are, Harbone Citadel.”

Meeker smiled, Alan swallowed hard.

Hope you guys liked it! Sorry it was late! 😊

J.G.P.