closer. Soldiers teemed behind it, waiting to
scale its interior. “Chaol brought the tower
down the other day without our help. It can
happen again.”
“Volley!” Chaol’s roar echoed off the
stones, and arrows sang.
Like a swarm of locusts, they swept upon
the soldiers marching below. Fenrys’s arrow
found its mark with lethal precision.
Within a heartbeat, another was on its tail.
A second soldier at the siege ladder fell.
Where the hell was Aelin—
Morath didn’t halt. Marched right over the
soldiers who fell on their front lines.
The pulse of human fear down the
battlements rippled against his skin. The cadre
would have to strike fast, and strike well, to
shake it away.
The siege tower lumbered closer. One
glance from Rowan had him and his friends
lily
(lily)
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