Beyond Night
They rushed after the man who now lay, rolling about at the edge of the woods, shouting curses amid his cries of pain.
They closed around the man, who made no attempt to do anything but strive in vain to tear the arrow from his leg.
“He’s a druid,” August announced. “Not a Celt, though. He’s a Pict.”
Malitus wondered, “Because he’s pale of skin and red haired?”
August shrugged as the archers trained fresh arrows on the figure. “That and the tattoos colored on him.”
“I don’t care if he’s a damned Egyptian,” Quintus cut in. “Get that arrow out of him so he’ll shut up, and drag him back to camp with us. If he saw what happened here . . . ”
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