Now he was back beside me, trying to bolster up his own courage by making me afraid.
"They have determined to take me along with them to prevent me from escaping," he complained.

"That man on the horse is saying that if more men go with Anazeh than you and two others, there will certainly be fighting.

And Anazeh answers, he has pledged his word.

Can you not say something to persuade Anazeh ?" I would rather have tried to persuade a tiger.

Short of knocking the old raider on the head and standing off his twenty ruffians, I could not imagine a way of turning him from his set purpose.
And at that, I had not a weapon of any kind.