Something moved.
Cameron caught it out of the corner of his eye. Leinth must have seen it, too, because her head moved abruptly, eyes trained on a spot somewhere in the ravine, somewhere beyond the wards.
“Step back,” she murmured to them. “Step back slow. Carolyn, I need you to go sound the alarm.”
“What’s out there?” she whispered.
“Something your faery friends can’t see, apparently.” Leinth didn’t turn, didn’t look at either Carolyn or Cameron. “Or somehow missed. Either way, it spells trouble.”
Cameron swore softly. “Go, Carolyn.”
“You need to step away, too, Cameron.” Leinth held up a hand to forestall the argument she must have known was coming—she knew him far too well for so little interaction.
A shiver shot through him. There are definitely reasons for that, reasons I don’t want to think about. “My place is here.”
“You’ll only get yourself killed and we both know that’s not what any of us want for you. Step back and get under cover before they come.”
“What’s out there?” Carolyn asked again, swallowing hard.
“Nothing good.”
Tell us something we didn’t know.
Cameron’s lips thinned. “Can you hold them without us?” he asked quietly. “Whatever they are?”
“Pray I can. Sound the alarm. Whatever is out there—it’s not here to make friends.” Leinth smiled grimly. “Now go, and be quick. Go!”
Cameron swallowed hard, loathe to abandon her there.
“The wards,” Carolyn said. “The wards should help.”
She’s right. She’s right, and you can’t do much good to anyone in your current state.
Cameron nodded. “Right. Right.”
“Hurry,” Leinth said, a faint note of urgency in her voice. “There are more coming. I can feel them.”
“How many?” Carolyn asked.
“Too many,” Leinth said. “If anyone has a bag of tricks they can call on, now would be the time to do it. Tell Phelan I said it.”Carolyn asked again want for you. Step back and get under cover before they come.”e can better edge and preconceptions of our
Carolyn looked at Cameron. He nodded slightly.
They both turned and ran.
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“Too many,” Leinth said. “If anyone has a bag of tricks they can call on, now would be the time to do it. Tell Phelan I said it.”Carolyn asked again want for you. Step back and get under cover before they come.”e can better edge and preconceptions of our
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Looks like a cut and paste issue.
I knew the lull couldn’t last.
I’ll have to fix it when I get home. Was in the middle of putting together a website for my social studies ed. class when I scheduled the post and my computer probably went nuts as a result.