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A dozen green fireballs of various sizes arced across the bridge Vi fu She was too slow

Nonetheless, every one of the Khalidorans’ falling fireballs was lifted like an arrow catching a sudden updraft, then curved in the air and smashed back into the Khalidoran lines A woa’s voice Vi’s battle ht, but seeing it actually work took Vi’s breath away

Vi couldn’t find her horse, though she had no idea how it could have gone anywhere through the massed ranks of pike the foot of Black Bridge She pushed her way to the front

Thethe shield wall at the front line looked at her Their shields were studded with dozens of arrows each The Khalidoran archers had figured out that if they shot at a low enough trajectory, they could find targets here "How much cover you want, Sister?" a skinny officer at least twenty years her senior asked The first row of soldiers were on one knee, their shields covering thele and a third held theirs overhead despite the uhtly as possible

"You, rest," Vi told a man in the second row She pushed her way into place and poked her head through the shields

She found the V&uu in front of hied into his shield,in chunks on the bridge at his feet, but the V&uu down the river toward the ford at the Great Market

The Khalidoran highlanders had pursued the sa’ceurai across the river, and thousands had now gained the Cenarian side Vi’s heart jumped into her throat

A blue flare streaked into the sky over the Great Market To Vi’s right, a led out onto the narrow stone ay that ran across the face of the dam Because the waters poured over the top of the daus e as water poured from fifty feet overhead He held the handrail and cli to keep his feet anchored to the stone At the center of the ere two enormous pulleys, the chains wrapped around them still pristine The chains themselves disappeared into the face of the daus threw thick blue ropes of

He had barely started when half a dozen V&uu in the Khalidoran ranks burst forward Fire, haus fro white hous screamed as the air ripped open and a pit wyrh shield and e pulleys, then it pulled back into whatever hell it had coreen fireit and snapping the chains

Only as they destroyed the second pulley did Vi realize that she’d just seen Garuwashi’s trap defanged Garuwashi had feigned the rout to draw the Khalidorans into the river where he meant to drown them But the Khalidorans had known Why else would they have concealed the presence of six Vürdmeisters? Now Garuwashi had just had his trap turned back on himself

"Feir!" Vi shouted She turned and was surprised to see he was right behind her, the dread in his eyes telling her he understood "Can you protect me?"

His eyes flicked to the Vürdmeisters, who to Vi’s eyes looked all the same "Three seconds, two thirds, and a sixth shu’ra Shit Maybe?"