My heart hammered in my chest, practically breaking my rib cage. I raced across the lawn toward her.

Something whizzed past my ear and sunk into the ground. An arrow.

I heard the sounds of whizzing in the air behind me. It sounded like hundreds of arrows descending on us all at once. Any second, they’d rain down and we wouldn’t be able to dodge them all!

How had I let myself underestimate the king and his own ...