"I'll go another way, to confuse them. Go on, now!"
Harry ran back along the sunken road. I started in the other direction.
I hadn't taken twenty steps when a Monolithian in a woolen cloak rose
up in front of me. I darted off sideways and ran into another one.
There were five in all.
Escape would have been impossible even with the machete. Without
speaking they escorted me toward the clearing.