The magic within
“Why save him, when he is the key to me? Give him, and I will spare the rest. All roads bend inward.”
He gritted his teeth, forcing the thought down, but across the cloister, another guildsman screamed and clawed at her head. She dropped her weapon, falling to her knees, sobbing, “I can’t— it’s inside—”
And then shadows burst from her mouth like smoke given form, tearing her body open as they spilled into the nave.
The siege had truly begun.
As chaos erupted — steel clashing, shadows writhing — Killian pulled Daryl tighter against him, ignoring the spray of black ichor around them.
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