On the other side of me were my sister and Lop-Ear, she being next to me.
There was no warning.

On the sudden, both the Hairless One and my sister sprang and screamed.

At the same instant I heard the thud of the arrows that transfixed them.

The next instant they were down on the ground, floundering and gasping, and the rest of us were stampeding for the trees.

An arrow drove past me and entered the ground, its feathered shaft vibrating and oscillating from the impact of its arrested flight.
I remember clearly how I swerved as I ran, to go past it, and that I gave it a needlessly wide berth.