Bóthilda had fallen asleep at the table while he uncle talked and drank. He shook her roughly to wake her up. "Time for us to go niece. A bed would serve better than a table to sleep at." He says with a laugh. She looked around quickly and saw many of the patrons had left including the Thanes she was watching earlier. Wearily she nodded and got up to walk out with her uncle to return to the carts. When the stepped out side she heard the four men stumbling up the street to the castle and looked up their way before turning to follow her uncle the other way to where they had left the cart. They had only walked a few pages before hearing the sounds of fighting coming from up the street. Bóthilda half turned and looked back up the street to see the figures standing over the four thanes. She turned the rest of the way and started back up the street only to be stopped by a hand on her shoulder. Her uncle had grabbed her and pulled her back a bit. "I'll get help, don't do anything foolish or get yourself killed. Your young and a good fighter but you are not invincible." With that he hurried towards the gates where the city guard were. Bóthilda pulled her axe from the loop it was kept in and started back up the street in a light jog. When she got only ten feet away she broke into a full run ramming her left shoulder into the nearest figure, who was holding a man (Gorlund) down knocking the attacker down. That drew the attention of the other two and they move to strike at her with their sticks and wooden maces. Instinctively she raised her right arm, which would have normally had a shield, to block the blow from the man in front of her as she shifted out from the other man's attack. Her shield however was still at the cart so the stick hit hard causing her to pull her arm back quickly in pain grunting some as well. She lashed out with her axe in return splitting the stick and drove the axe head into the person's chest when they tried to block. The person dropped bodily to the ground not moving and Bóthilda readied herself as the person she had knocked over got up and the other was moving farther to her left to flank her. On top of that Bóthilda hadn't noticed the fourth figure detaching itself from the shadows of the ally.