5 - Her Resolve

            “Ouch! One more unnecessary movement and I’ll throw you out!” Finrod threatened, his eyes narrowed at Ellaine.

            “Huh! Can’t you just even thank me for helping you?” She could’ve hit him if not for the long, bloody wound across his chest.

            “Hey, both of you, can’t you stop bickering?” Margarette said.

            Fortunately, an empty stagecoach stopped by and carried them when they got out of the forest. The coachman, a bony gentleman (precisely, a skeleton) held the reins of four ghost horses.

Margarette said they are called couriers. They always appear when someone is in the brink of death. Sometimes they help injured creatures reach the nearest infirmary but sometimes they deliver them to their end.

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