Mabon quickly moved the first man that he'd killed and pulled out his dagger from the corpse. He wiped the blades on his cloth and turned around to look at the birds who had been making noises upon watching the commotion. They were fighter birds, Mabon supposed as seemed excited with what had been happening.
However, he knew that those sounds and the clanking of the blades could attract some people and if they were scouts out here, there could be more around. Mabon wasn't going to wait around to find out how many more were there and he hoped that coming this close to the Red Kingdom was enough for the messenger birds – as there was no way that he could venture beyond this point.
