Terrifying

You would do anything to avoid ending up like that. You didn't feel safe until you had returned home that evening, and even then, you had considered moving somewhere further away.

You look out of the window again, considering your options. While primarily a trader, you know how to handle a weapon, you could help to defend the village, but if there are too many, you would just make it easy to catch you. You could run: the forest behind your house is dense, maybe you could lose them. On the other hand, running from a race of tree-dwellers through a forest seems like a bad plan. You could hide and hope they don't spot you.

Either way, you realise that you had better decide quickly, as the fight is coming closer to your house.