by CarrieVS » Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:37 am
They are just within range of the powerful crossbows, and Liang's men are safe, as it stands, from the Vixens' lighter bows or the cavalry's javelins, precluding the standard response to such a threat.
At Liang's accusatory words, Baozi turns like everyone else to see Senlin's reaction - only to realise that she has vanished. The Vixens still stand there, without their leader, and the woman who is currently assigned to guard him is of course still at his side. None of them give any hint as to where she has gone, if they know.
She may of course be using the cover of the woods to get closer to her old enemy, to ambush him in spite of the apparent failure of their plan. Or she may be doing the same to them. Especially now, if she has heard what Liang just said. If the latter is the case, of course they will try to either cut Baozi's throat out of hand, or threaten his life to control Wenchang and Dewang.
Wenchang, meanwhile, is still shouting and swearing vengeance against Liang Ju. He is clearly furious, and Baozi suspects he may do something brave, honourable, and quite foolish and costly.
"Wenchang," he says, not loudly enough to carry across the distance to their enemies, "I rather believe that wherever Miss Senlin is is where she chooses to be. We don't have the advantage we hoped for, and to charge in now would surely be bloody, and we cannot stop Liang from running, so it may be spilled to no purpose." He turns to the Vixen beside him, who has a hand on her knife.
"I would go so far as to say that our plan has failed, unless Miss Senlin is about to make a move. I trust that she would hold our agreement to be at an end, if we have to abandon this endeavour, and that I might depart when my friends do?" He trusts no such thing, but he may as well push them to declare their intentions now, and try to find out where he stands.
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