CALLUMDawn breaks over the Rookeries. The last sunrise some of us will ever see.I stand on the command post roof. Watching the horizon. Waiting for the assault.Behind me, fifty-two fighters are positioned. Armed. Ready. Terrified but determined.Isla's medical station is staffed. She's got twenty cots prepared. Knows it won't be enough. Prepared anyway.Tom's maintaining the fae wards. Weak ones. Delaying tactics. But better than nothing.Valentina's beside me. Armed with stakes and silver blades. Her hand finds mine."Whatever happens," she says, "I'm glad we had last night."Last night. After Magnus left for the Seelie Court. After we learned he traded seventy-six years for military intervention. We spent hours together. Talking. Planning. Loving. Knowing it might be our last chance."Me too," I say.In the distance, movement. The Parliamentary hunters are positioning.I count them through binoculars. Sixty vampire hunters. Ten dragons in human form. Ten Hermetic Order mages. Thi
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