The Last Heiress
"The Scourge. They're moving again. Vex saw them. A whole group of them, heading southeast, toward Karenthel."
"They're going to attack the city," someone else said. "They're going to destroy it like they destroyed Millbrook."
The panic that had been simmering beneath the surface of our carefully constructed routine suddenly boiled up. We'd spent the winter trying to pretend that we were building something, that we were preparing for a future. But the news that the Scourge was moving again, that the larger world was still being torn apart, was enough to shatter that delusion.
Corvin called us together that evening. Vex was present, and Solace, and the two other soldiers who'd survived the ke