[Glirdan]

The soak and wet cloaks were enough to get through part of the ring of fire, but not to put the entire inferno out. "Someone will have to get to the nearest village and alert the authorities!" He cried out to Hama.

Hama, however, was preoccupied with something else. While Elfride and he had been attempting to put the fire out with their cloaks, Cordelia had fired an arrow at the back of the man whom Mayonnette had already injured. "Wow!! These two have great aim!" he thought silently.

It was then that he saw what was troubling the General. It was then that he saw Elfride stuggling through the fire to get to the man before he escaped or perished. He had put all his concentration on putting out the fire that he didn't notice that Elfride had slipped off and left him to put it out.

He watched her progress with batted breath, hoping against hope that she would make it safetly to the other side. He breathed out heavily as she reached the man unsteadily.

He turned back to Hama and repeated himself, "General! Someone has to get to the nearest village and get help! This fire could spread!! We don't have enough people to put it out!!" With that, he sprang up on Aldor, grabbed Leif's reins and rode over to Elfride to make sure she was alright and to make sure that the man didn't try something sneaky in a last attempt to harm them.

"Elfride!" he cried. "Elfride! Are you okay? You're not hurt are you. And don't turn your back on him when you anwswer me. He might try and pull something."