Bab 218: Defeat, or Death

RETH

"NO!" Reth bellowed, shifting, and throwing himself over the rockface. In the same moment Behryn whistled and three Avaline leaped out of the trees within the Crevasse, while the equine guards swung over the edge of the crevasse on their ropes, swinging and sliding to the dirt in the same amount of time it took Reth to land on an outcropping halfway down, turn and leap to the dirt floor.

He was able to control the beast enough not to roar and warn the others who were focused on the encampment that the real lion was loose at their backs, but the blood frenzy was on the beast and it didn't hesitate. His beast had swiped through three of the guards and had another's neck in his mouth before Reth wrestled back control and was able to drop the body and leap towards the women.