Escaping

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Adrowin turns back to Aragorn. "Go through the window", he points to the bedroom window across the room, "I will try to distract him as long as I can."

Aragorn tries to argue with him, but the boy urges him on, "go!"

Aragorn moves to the window and tosses the sack out the window and soon leaps out himself. He lands softly on the grassy ground and stays crouched as he grabs his sack and creeps into the nearby woods.

Adrowin opens the quest bedroom door just as Kaywin was reaching to open it. "Hello father, glad to see you back home", he greets his father. Kaywin can sense that his son is hiding something from him. 

"What are you hiding son", Kaywin says, looking his son straight in the eye.  "Nothing, sir, nothing", his son replies. "You lie", the man says through gritted teeth. He bends down and forcefully takes a hold of Adrowin's shoulders. "Tell me, where is the Man?" Adrowin does not answer. "Tell me", now he begins to shake his son.

Adrowin shakes his head, "no, father. I will not let you hurt him. He is my friend." "Wrong answer, boy", Kaywin says as he shoves the boy back into the bedroom. He slides a couple feet on the floor. Once he stops he stays down, too afraid that if he gets up his father will hurt him worse.

Kaywin heads back down the hall, but is stopped by Helena. She had heard the commotion from outside and came in to see what was going on. She stands in front of Kaywin to black him from leaving the house. "If you were you, Helena, I would get out of the way", Kaywin threatens. "No", Helena stands firmly in place, "I will not let you hurt that nice young man."

"I said get out of my way, Woman!" he slaps her hard on the cheek. She lets out a cry of pain and falls to the floor. She holds her hurt cheek with her hand as she watches Kaywin walk past to the front door.

Adrowin, having gotten up and heading down the hall, witnessed all of this take place. Newly fueled by hate he walks faster towards the front door that his father exited from.

Aragorn is watching the front door, not wanting to leave the two alone with Kaywin, but too nervous to face the man by himself.  He sees the front door swing open and Kaywin comee out. Shortly behind him Adrowin comes out and charges towards his father.

Kaywin is caught by surprise and Adrowin uses that to his advantage. He jumps onto his father's back. The man spins around, trying to get the boy off of his back. He finally gets a hold of the back of Adrowin's shirt and tugs on it so that it flips the boy over his head and onto the ground. The young man lands hard on the dirt path. The wind is knocked out of him as he lands on his back. Kaywin looms over his son's body, looking ready to strike at any moment.

Aragorn, not wanting to let Kaywin hurt Adrowin any further, grabs his hunting knife from the sack and runs towards the man. He tackles him to the ground and holds a knife to his throat.

TBC…

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