AURORA
The lookout point was alive with the sound of scurrying and the panting of breath. I came up the hill, my heart pounding in my chest.
Before me stood a terrible prospect: a tide of armies, torch lit and steadily flowing across the forest floor, threatened to sweep down the slope at any moment.
I held the wooden railing with my knuckles that were turning white.
“We are running out of time,” I breathed softly.
“Aurora.”
Trajan’s deep voice startled me. As I turned to see him, he was standing tall, his expression grim but focused.
“They’re not holding back,” he said, gesturing toward the advancing forces.
“No,” I replied, her voice hardening. “They’re not.”
Minutes later, the council gathered in the main hall, the tension clear and evident. The room was a chaos of raised voices as
opinions clashed like swords.
Traian pounded his fist on the table, silencing all others in the
I leaned forward, voice firm yet controlled. “If we go into battle now, Dane’s sacrifice will be for nothing. We must try to avoid. the bloodshed.
“Bloodshed may already be inevitable,” Evelyn said from the
corner, her arms crossed. “But Luna has a point. We need to be smart about this.”
Warrick scoffed, shaking his head. “Smart doesn’t mean passive. They’re counting on us hesitating. Every second we delay is another step closer to the packhouse.“.
Out of annoyance and frustration, I threw up my hand, my voice loud over the annoying argument. “Stop It!” The room fell silent.
“We aren’t acting rashly. Piper, Warrick, keep coordinating our defenses of the packhouse. Trajan, you know what to do, you’ll arrange our frontline positions. I will send a messenger out to hold them up a bit while we prepare ourselves.” noveldrama
Trajan scowled. “What if they do not accept this?”
Aurora’s jaw locked. “Then we meet them on our turf.”
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The air cooled as the pack worked. Piper and Warrick surveyed
preparations, and Trajan and Evelyn practiced defenses. As I
saw them obeying commandment, I went and stood near the
fire, my eyes fixed on some place far away.
Trajan came and stood near me, His voice was low. “You’re bearing too much by yourself.”
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