It was not difficult to see how they had misread the situation.
Bodies bound and burned, a village cloaked in smoke, and a man emerging from the carnage carrying the girl who was meant to be the final victim. To them, he must have looked like the devil himself.
Boran quickly took stock of his opponents. Four of them. Wizards, by the look of it, which made their ages difficult to pinpoint, but they couldn't be much older than their late teens