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The guards looked at each other only for a moment before shaking their heads in unison.
"Go back to what? We will only be burdens to them," the first guard chuckled. He was a burly man with a bushy beard that came down to his chest.
The second guard was a scrawny-looking youngster barely in his twenties. He gestured towards the window where Wern was standing, "And it's not like we can escape. Even if there was a way to outrun these weaker ones their master would still catch up to us."
Wern still held some hope but upon hearing of the 'master' his expression became dull.
"You're right...I forgot about them..." he peered out of the window towards a lone figure that was standing almost a hundred meters.
Unlike any of the others it was calmly watching from afar.
"It's toying with us," Wern whispered, "Waiting for us to get tired and let our guard down."
The guards could only agree with him. They had all seen how it operated, and worst of all-