Chapter 74: Hesitation

Emery noticed the clashing outside and had an inkling it was time to go. The marauders were distracted by the new marauder arrivee bringing news about a knight who was just outside. If this was the case, it wouldn't be long that the royal troops would come crashing into the ragged house and arrest everyone they would see, except perhaps for Lanzo.

He quickly kneeled to Lanzo and said, "You're going to be safe now. I have to go."

"But—"

Emery barely heard what Lanzo had said afterward because he had just jumped out of the window when a thud of something dropping on the wooden floor sounded. 

He heard a person inside the ragged house say, 'Drop your weapons and surrender now!'