Kingdom of Ash

as Aelin brought down Goldryn upon the
catapult before her.
Twin boulders soared.
And slammed into the siege towers beside
them.
Iron groaned; wood shattered.
And the two towers began to topple. Where
Ansel of Briarcliff had gone to escape the
destruction, even Rowan could not follow.
Not as Aelin remained atop the first siege
tower, and leaped upon the now-outstretched
arm of the catapult, jutting over the battlefield
below. Not as she shouted to Lysandra, who
shifted again, a wyvern rising up from a ghost
leopard’s leap.
Grabbing the catapult’s outstretched arm in
one taloned foot while plucking up Aelin in
another.
With a mighty flap, Lysandra ripped the
catapult from its bolts atop the tower. And