Flee

You and Whisper scoop up the remaining seedlings as the men approach. You see a band of notorious outlaws that in your time before becoming a knight, had been on all the most wanted posters and had eluded you in the past. There were about 50 men and woman with bows and axes. Some had other forest animals dead over their shoulders.

Whisper glided through the forest in front of you Trees and scrub moving away from you and closing in thickly behind growing thorns. The seedling babies you had in your hands cried. Whisper had the two remaining boys and you had the three girls. You headed to your castle. The dawn light peeking through the trees and arrows whizzing past or thudding into trunks. Just close to the edge of the forest you felt pain in your leg as the arrow wound brushed against a tree jamming the arrow deeper. "AAAAARRRRR" you screamed as you collapsed in pain. Whisper wheeled around to help you.