Chapter 302
The trees closed in around Katelina. Jorick slowed but didn't stop. Sorino crashed through the vegetation behind them, Kai on his heels. Suddenly Ronnell appeared long enough to slam Kai into a tree and slash at him with a knife. Then he was gone and the boy crumpled to the ground, only to pick himself up and wipe the blood from his cheek.
Sorino pulled a final throwing knife from his coat and flung it into the middle of nowhere. One second Katelina could see it, spinning into the vastness of the forest, and suddenly there was Ronnell in the same space, jerking the blade out of his shoulder.
Jorick dodged through the trees in a crooked pattern, the sound of the waterfall grew louder and then faded. She couldn't keep track of where he was going. They pounded past a large tree and nearly ran over Maeko and Hikaru. The latter was leaning heavily on his stick and bleeding from multiple wounds. Maeko, meanwhile, clutched a broken tree branch as a weapon.