Fight

Before you formed what appeared to be a quarterstaff and sheld made of living wood. As you grasped them the became separated from the ground. Moss grew around your arrow wound that was then held in place by bark. This stopped the bleeding and strengthened the area. You used the shield to get close to the bandits then slung it to your back to grasp the staff with two hands.

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.

You fought them off with thorns and branches fighting beside you. When all ware subdued you collapsed from exhaustion. You saw Whisper behind you in a protective shell of trees cowering with her remaining seedlings. The bandits were all unconscious but not dead.

You look to Whisper as the shell moves back to be just trees. She is cradling the dead seedling in her arms the dead deer by her side as she weeps. The other seedlings come other to you for comfort. It takes all your energy to sit up and comfort your children until they stop crying.

"You are these people's king, what are we to do with them?" Whisper asks her voice broken and wavering from crying.

"They attacked your woods They are yours to punish." You declare.