My first urge is to go to the barracks and free Dominik and the others. But I remind myself that the area is filled with guards, and it would not be long before I am captured and probably killed. I send out a prayer for their well-being, but shift my direction towards where I hope the castle is.

I follow the moon, urging the horses through the trees. Every sound that startles me sends me into a spiral of fear, as I worry the guards and the Commander have caught up to me. But as ...