Kill you

Rosalind's POV

The marsh sucked at my feet with every step and it took all my strength to even pull out one foot and step forward with another.

I made the mistake of looking back and I saw Adelyn enter the marsh with what seemed like the fury of the world on her face. She moved fast and before I could blink, she skidded and landed on her back splattering mud everywhere.

I laughed and my belly tender from her kneeing protested and I almost lost my balance falling forward until I caught myself.

The person farther ahead was the girl that had picked a fight with the other girl. She seemed to have gotten a hang of this moving-in-the-mud thing.

I looked back at her opponent that lay unconscious and unmoving. A shiver ran up my spine. I hoped she was still alive. Seeing the nobles dolled up it was easy to forget how dangerous they were.

They had enough gold and silver to have their children trained immediately after they were weaned. Even the ladies that would be little more than orname