Even as she turned, she noticed other creatures around her, moving from the trees to surround and trap her. They were on foot, but those feet were strangely deformed, splayed and taloned toes at the end of double knee-ed legs. Aside from this, they appeared human, their bodies covered in armour, their hands grasping sharply bladed weapons.
"Surely you don't think that we would send a single agent, do you girl?" asked the biggest creature, a good head taller than its companions and wearing a plume in its helm. "Now hand that vial over to us, and maybe you won't suffer too much."
Dauphin made a quick count. Ten of them, and each a battle hardened veteran, if she was any judge. She probably wouldn't be able to survive if she tried to fight her way free, but then she knew that she couldn't trust them with her life; all her life she'd been told stories of their duplicity and cruelty, as a child they had served as bogeymen to scare her into obedience.
Now those self-same bogeymen were made flesh, and their fingers were flexing over the grip of their glaives. No way to stall them - she had to decide now.
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