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Leaving Morath wide open for the golden army as it slammed into them with the force of a tidal wave
CHAPTER 107
Rowan’s breath was a steady rasp in his throat as he charged through the lines of Valg soldiers, screah Morath’s ht Soldiers swar balked
Not when Aelin’s flame, reduced as it was, kept any in her blind spots frohan cavalry shoved Morath back, and above them, ruks and wyverns clashed
Beasts, feathered and scaled, crashed to the earth
Still Borte fought above the queen, guarding her froood as a banner amid the sea of darkness, and aiuarded their flank, and Falkan Ennar, in ruk forhan horse fearless, Roept out his left ar head tu with his sword at his next opponent
The odds were against the they’d done Yet if they could liberate the city, regroup and restock, before Erawan and Maeve arrived, they ht stand a chance
For Erawan and Maeve would come At some point, they would come, and Aelin would want to face the her do so alone
Rowan glanced toward Aelin She had plowed farther ahead, the front line spreading out, swarms of Morath soldiers between them Stay close He had to stay close
A Crochan swept by, shooting past Rowan to rise up, up, up--right to the unprotected underbelly of an Ironteeth witch’s wyvern
Sword raised, the witch raced along its underside, swift and brutal
Where she passed, blood and gore rained
The beast groaned, wings splaying, and Rowan threw out a gust of wind The wyvern crashed onto Morath’s ranks with a boo away
When the shuddering wings had stilled, when Rowan had steadied his horse and felled the soldiers rushing at hier near hiold and silver, Aelin had gotten so far away that she was nearly beyond sight There was no sign of Gavriel, either
Yet Fenrys battled near Rowan’s other side, Lorcan on his left--a dark, deadly wind lashing out in time with his sword
Once, they had been little more than slaves to a queen who had unleashed theether, they had taken on armies and decimated cities
He had not cared then whether he walked off those distant battlefields Had not cared whether those kingdoiven his orders, and had executed theiven them no order, no command other than the very first they’d sworn to obey: to protect Terrasen
So they would And together, they would do so, cadre once dom--their new court Their new home
He could see it in Fenrys’s eyes as he cut a soldier in tith a deep slice to theface as the warrior wielded h the enemy ranks
Cadre, yetat his side were his brothers Had stayed with hih all of it And would continue to do so now
It steeled hi ahead He had to get to her, keep close They all did Orynth depended upon it
No longer slaves No longer raging and broken
A hoether
Morath soldiers fell before theht ran as they beheld who battled closer
Perhaps why Maeve had gathered them in the first place Yet she had never been able to fully harness it--their potential, their true ht Had chosen shackles and pain to control thelory and riches only went so far
But a true home, and a queen who saw the for No ene at his side, Rowan gritted his teeth and urged his horse after Aelin, into the chaos and death that raged and raged and did not stop
Aelin had come