The Last Heiress
"They're attacking right now."
"Which means we might be too late," Solace said.
"Or we might be perfectly on time," Vex replied. She started moving faster down the hill. "Come on. All of you. We need to reach the city before the gates close, before they decide we're too risky to let in."
We moved faster, our exhaustion temporarily overridden by the urgency of the situation. The sounds of battle grew clearer as we approached—screaming, the clash of metal on metal, and beneath it all, that psychic pressure that I'd learned to recognize as the presence of the Scourge.