All Chapters of THE LYCAN'S SACRIFICE, Fated To The Beast. : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

Kael’s PovThe first stone hit the northern wall before the sun was fully up. The sound of it went through the stone and into my feet where I was standing on the upper walkway. I looked out across the field and saw the catapults lined up in the grey morning light and there were a lot of them and they were already reloading."Report," I said to the warrior beside me.He ran to the edge and looked over. "Six catapults on the northern line. Possibly more on the flanks. They are reloading fast."The second stone hit and then the third. The wall shook each time and dust came off the stone around us and the warriors along the walkway grabbed whatever was close to stay steady. The noise was not just loud. It was the kind of loud that got inside your head and stayed there."Hold your positions," I called out and nobody moved from where they were standing which was what I needed.Lira came up the stairs fast and stopped

Kael's PovThe northeastern attack came on the second day exactly when I had expected it. Three days before the siege started I had sat down with Sera and told her plainly what was coming. The Old Guard would split their force and send a second column northeast because the northeastern walls were older and their scouts would have seen that already. Sera had listened and taken her six thousand warriors out there to hold it and now she was in the middle of exactly what I had told her was coming.The first runner from the northeast reached me at midmorning while I was still managing the second wave on the northern wall. He was breathing hard when he got to me."General Sera reports heavy contact on the northeastern wall," he said. "They are pushing ladders and battering equipment both at the same time.""Is she holding," I said."Holding for now. But the wall is taking serious damage."I looked at Lira. She was alr

Elvanya's Pov The knock on my door came before dawn and it was hard and urgent. I was already sitting up before the guard on the other side finished his first sentence."The king is down," he said. "Arrow wound. Matilda is already with him at the eastern gate."I grabbed Luna from the travel crib and ran.Kael was on the floor just inside the gate with Matilda kneeling over him and two guards holding torches above them so she could see what she was doing. There was blood soaked through his side and on both his hands where he had grabbed the arrow shaft. His face was pale and his eyes were shut and he was very still."How bad," I said."Bad enough," Matilda said without looking up. She had both hands pressed hard against the wound. "The arrow is out but I need him inside with proper light right now."We carried him to the nearest room with a bed and got him onto it and Matilda went to work immediately

Kael's Pov Lira told me about Morgana while I was still in bed. She sat in the chair beside me and laid it out plainly and watched my face the whole time she did it.I listened to all of it and then I said "How certain is the scout.""Certain enough that he came directly to me and asked to speak alone," she said. "He did not tell anyone else before he told me. That is not a man raising a false alarm.""No," I said. "It is not."I tried to sit up and Elvanya put her hand flat on my chest and looked at me without saying anything. I stayed where I was."Morgana was exiled," I said. "She left the kingdom. We stood at the road and watched her go.""We watched someone go," Lira said. "Whether that someone was actually Morgana is the question we should have been asking sooner."I thought about that. I thought about the dark magic Eldric had been tracking from the first morning of the siege. Organ

Kael's Pov The assault came the morning after the parley. I had expected it. After the Changeling came to the gate and Elvanya refused it I knew we were not getting another day of the same slow siege. The parley was the last patient thing it was willing to try and now it was done being patient.Twenty thousand warriors hit all four walls at first light. Not the rolling waves we had been managing since the siege began. Everything at once from every direction with no rest between pushes and the Changeling on the northern line using stolen power directly against the wall structure itself. No replacement catapults needed. It was doing what the catapults had been doing and it was doing it better.I was on the northern wall when it started. I stayed there."It is targeting the wall from the inside out," Eldric said from beside me. His wards were up and fully extended and the air around him had pressure to it I could feel through my boots.