BlackwaterAlthough he is now beginning to suffer pangs in his shoulder from overexertion, Miles retains the Warrior's attention and holds him cannily at spear-length while Eliver is free to fell a noble Thegn. Leiryn crushes the pomel of his sword into the unprotected skull of a ceorl, and lifts his sword up to rightly end another Ceorl laying on the deck, but he misses and instead manages to get his blade stuck in the side of the ship. Elspeth knocks her own Ceorl mightily to the ground with a gash in the shield-arm, but has not robbed the sea wolf of his spirits and he soon attempts to clamber up to return the favor. Terwynn sends a warrior groaning to his knees, but lets her sword slip from her fingers when moving to dispatch the ceorl beside him.
LincolnBlunder of blunders, no sooner has Bleddyn drawn his sword then it slips out of his grip and beyond his reach in the mud below, and the sword of his enemy slips past his shield to wound him again. In the inverse, Persidius and Emrys both incapacitate their enemies in a pair of lucky strokes.
The duke's squire is now mounted, and the pair begin to spur their horses in the other direction, erring on the side of discretion.