Red River
This story is a piece in a four part story, named "the battle series" Note before you comment: The lack of information on names/appearances/locations etc, is intentional. This may be part of a series, but it was meant exclusively as practice on combat scenes. The story: ------------------------------------------------------------- He was crouching behind a bush, but there was nothing to be seen or heard, not even animal sounds. He checked the string on his bow one more time. It was indeed still there, and it was indeed still strung. He knocked an arrow and drew the feather back to his ear. He had lost count of time – such small measures of time were just about impossible to keep track of without tools anyways. So he settled on being ready at any moment. He took deep breaths and started working up a focus. He needed that. He'd figured out a plan that could work, but it took skill. Probably, more than he had. A little while later, a party came galloping through the...