But he was not in the distant road that led back toward Western City.
The prince nodded at the distant road as he started to speak.
He had raced down the opposite slope of the hill toward a distant public road.
Looking both ways and back over his shoulder first, he started across a wide field toward a distant, narrow road.
He started to run down the slope toward the distant road.
A car moved along a distant road, its headlights bobbing.
A speck moved on a distant road snaking across the top of the hill.
A shot could alert the searching bands on the not too distant road.
He rejected it as a sound that could have carried from a distant road.
Then he picked up the M-16 and scanned the distant road with its night-vision device.