Kingdom of Ash

and soldiers screaming and fleeing before
them, the sun hit the smaller wyvern leading
the attack.
Lighting up wings like living silver.
Aedion knew that wyvern. Knew the white-
haired rider atop it.
“HOLD FIRE,” he bellowed down the lines.
His commanders echoed the order, and all the
arrows that had been pointed upward now
halted.
“It’s ...,” Lysandra breathed, her hand
dropping from his while she walked forward a
step, as if in a daze. “It ...”
Soldiers still fell back from the city walls
as Manon Blackbeak and her Thirteen landed
along them, right before Aedion and
Lysandra.
It was not the witch he had last seen on a
beach in Eyllwe.
No, there was nothing of that cold, strange