They reached the cliff before the first arrows fell.
He spends his days chasing the beasts of the forest, running them down by sheer speed, or killing them with darts (javelots) or bow and arrows, the only weapons he knows.
The short white arrows are pointing to nuclear pores.
But even in suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune the Sagittarian copes better than most.
For some poison arrows, like books, there is an easy cure.