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SilverFox, Captain Greenwood, Captain McOrton, heavy lancers Ghost and Brisbane and horse archers Tree and BoneTac lead their horses and pack horses silently behind the compound. They walked for a good half hour away from the compound and then mounted their horses. At first they had made their way slowly through the forest and gradually made their way onto the road heading in the direction of their king’s compound.
The clashing of steel and the screams of dying men could be heard in the opposite direction of where they were heading. Each one made a silent prayer that it was not their men that they heard wailing. It sounded of torment and all of the men knew that whichever side was losing was being massacred. They continued to travel on the road for several hours before they stopped to feed the horses and eventually feed themselves.
Traveling throughout the night with very little rest was harder on them then it was on the horses. At times they would have to walk the horses to lessen the chances of laming the horses. During the first thirty-six hours they got no more than four hours sleep and the horses and them were extremely tired. From that point on they took turns sleeping, some would even sleep on the backs of their horses while being pulled along by another.
After three days of riding they were one day away from their destination. Captain McOrton sent one of the horse archers out to scout the area up ahead to see who was at the camp that they smelled the smoke of their camp fire rather than saw them.