The main avenue squad had formed up at the edge of the first cleared street, with the barricade's wreckage behind them.
Then Beorn moved to Harr's position at the front.
"Two men on the north wall of each building we pass," he said to Harr. "Have them watch the doors and the upper windows while the squad moves."
Harr looked at the buildings along the second street. "That narrows the space."
"It does," Beorn said. "Do it anyway."
Harr called out two names and pointed. The two men broke from the squad and took their positions along the facing wall.
Then the bolt came from behind and to the left.
The runner carrying Godric's update to the side squad was two steps ahead of Beorn when the bolt hit him. The impact drove him sideways into the building wall. The sound was dull and solid, between the shoulder and the spine, somewhere in the upper back on the right side.
He went down the wall to one knee.
