that fueled that blast of destruction, but
Ironteeth witches.
Young Ironteeth witches who offered
themselves up. Who made the Yielding as
they leaped into the mirror-lined pit within
the tower.
An ordinary Yielding might take out
twenty, thirty witches around her. Maybe
more, if she was older and more powerful.
But a Yielding amplified by the power of
those witch mirrors ... One blast, and the
castle looming above them would be rubble.
Another blast, maybe two, and Orynth would
follow it.
Ironteeth swarmed the tower, a vicious
wall keeping the Crochans and rebel Ironteeth
out.
A few Crochans indeed tried to break
through those defenses.
Their red-clad bodies fell to the earth in
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