In the chaos, no one noticed that the Fire-Bringer did not appear. That not an ember of her flame glowed in the screaming night. Then the foot soldiers reached them. And that cobbled-together army began to sunder. The right flank broke first. A Valg prince unleashed his power, men lying dead in his wake. It took Ilias of the Silent Assassins sneaking behind enemy lines to decapitate him for the slaughter to staunch. The Bane’s center lines held, yet they lost yard after yard to claws and fangs and sword and shield. So many of the enemy that the Fae royals and their kin couldn’t choke the air
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