Someone is shouting behind Cho, but she can't be sure where, and the alarm races around the city walls from person to person. They're being attacked from the South. Cho can feel her heart pounding in her chest, and the copycat pressure in her head. The bow they've given her is not familiar. The wood is different, the string is different, the arc is not what she's used to. It takes more strength to draw than her own bow, and her aim is not as good as a result, but she's better than nothing, and it scares her a little to realize that they're using her anyway because 'nothing' is their other option. People are moving past her, heading to where the action is, but Cho stays put, and spaces herself out with the elves that remain behind. If she were a general, she would divide her forces, launch a first attack, wait until the city's defense was centered at that wall, and then come in from a different direction with the second half. So she waits, and she watches, and prays that this general will not do what she would have done, and she hears her grandfather's voice in her head telling her that it's all right to be afraid, but it's not all right to show it.
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