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At amass, on the road That was all she could be certain of It was different fro vord warrior forht on vord ar as lea, and color, or she wouldn't have been able to see anything at all
A to Cirrus to draw the distant road even closer in her sight It was difficult to do so whileinto focus after athat she had been expecting in the vord's train
Furies
The road was filled with manifest furies Thousands, tens of thousands, of the Earth furies showed the through the earth Souely shaped like aniest of thele hu horse Wood furies bounded along the causeway, their shapes never quitethe traits of many - others, invisible in the trees and plants at either side of the road, could only be seen as a ripple of forward s Water furies bounded or slithered forward, sos, while others were siether by the will of the fury inhabiting it Fire furies rushed ah others were flickering for froht Amara had seen And from three to twenty feet above the surface of the road rushed a horde of wind furies They were er wispy shapes ghosting aest in the forh the air as if it were the sea
So htly dizzied
She dies of the road, or flying slightly above it - captured Alerans She realized, after athe furies below, using furycraft of their own to keep thethe causeway The driven furies were not pleased about it either Their aggressive anger was soainst her teeth
But if they were doing that it meant
"Bloody crows," Amara swore "Those are feral furies"
Veradis stared at her ide eyes, her face pale "All of them? Th-that's iainst the vord The enehter And every Aleran killed uidance Soions of the deadly things And this was no proble ind shelter in a building of earth and stone If soainst this mob, the earth furies would crush hi the wood furies didn't simply follow them in, or the fire furies turn what should have been a haven into a murderous furnace
Feral furies were not easily intimidated or dissuaded from their violence It required the skills of a full-blown Citizen to deal with them It had taken Aleran Citizens centuries to pacify the settled lands of Alera, then the routes followed by the causeways