Escape From Orc- Fleeing -final- Now
By the end of Fleeing – Part II , Rynn had lost her horse, her quiver, and her left pauldron (still lodged in the jaw of an orc named Grulluk). By Part III , she was bleeding from a gut wound she’d tried to cauterize with black powder—a mistake that left her feverish and hallucinating.
We walked toward the nearest village—if it still stood—guided by smoke and the faint line of a road. In the valley below I spied a column of refugees, gaunt and wary, guarded by a band of men with bows. Relief flooded me like heat. I stepped forward, calling out. Escape from Orc- Fleeing -Final-
He draws his last arrow, lights it with shaking hands from his oil-soaked sleeve, and fires into the oil barrel Grushnok’s scouts carelessly left near the rear of their formation. By the end of Fleeing – Part II
At 19:00, a hidden prompt appears: “Divert – LT + RT.” Rynn veers left into a dry creek bed. The orcs, expecting her to run for the gate, overshoot. She crawls into a foxhole used by deserters. She hides for six hours, listening to the orcs argue, then leave. She delivers the letter. But when she returns to Last Watch a week later, she learns that the gate was overrun that night—because the guards lowered it for her, and ten orcs slipped through before it closed. Twenty-seven people died. Her survival cost a massacre. In the valley below I spied a column