There was a sense of relief when they began to move. That first black line, drawn with the thickest paintbrush on the battlefield canvas board was allowed to pass. They all began to shift, according to Oliver's command. The lines that had been so messy before were dashed away, and a new picture was created.
Fitzer kept peppering the retreating men with arrow fire. That was the price that they paid, but it was hardly the heaviest of prices, for the allied forces kept doing the same, and they were numerically superior in terms of the bowmen that they wielded. Simply that alone should have been enough to drag them towards victory.
