Kingdom of Ash

between places. The wards around his
kingdom prevent me from doing so.”
“So you could not transport Erawan’s
armies there for him.”
“No. I can only enter on foot. There are too
many of them, anyway, for me to hold the
portal that long.”
“Erawan is aware of your gift, so he’ll
likely have taken steps to guard his own
room.”
“Yes, and I have spent my time here slowly
unraveling them. He is not so skilled a
spellworker as he thinks.” A smug, triumphant
smile.
Yet Dorian asked, “Why not do this from
the start?”
“Because I had not yet decided it was
worth the risk. Because he had not yet pushed
me to bring my handmaidens here, to be mere
foot soldiers.”