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and mud hindering each step as the two ilken
pressed closer to the shifter-queen.
Savoring the kill.
But the soldiers slowed their fleeing. Some
even re-formed the lines when the call went
out again. The queen is here. The queen fights
at the front line.
Exactly why she had done it. Why she had
donned the defenseless, human form.
No.
The ilken towered over her, grinning with
their horrible, mangled faces.
Too far. He was still too damn far to do
anything—
One of the ilken slashed with a long,
clawed arm.
Her scream as poisoned talons ripped
through her thigh sounded above the din of
battle.
She went down, shield rising to cover