“Fine,” I grunted as a thatcher knocked into me. “Will Bluey fly me in his claw?”
Jaxs was silent for a second, then nodded.
“Okay, great. I want you to flood MonClem. Pull as much from the lake as you can.”
“That’s yourplan?” Jaxs mused. “You want us to ride my dragon and make MonClem a glorified swimming pool? In case you haven’t noticed, the tin-men can’t drown.”
I bit my lip. I did notice that. I needed Aura. I needed her shield so I could?—
I swore something flowed through me at the thought, I just couldn’t decipher what it was. I turned my head toward the tunnel as a shimmering glow erected around the opening.
I wasn’t going insane…
Aurawasin my mind. I had no idea how or why, but she just gave me exactly what I needed.
I smiled. “As soon as Bluey picks us up, have him add fire to the water. We’ll melt them and drown the thatchers.”
“Are you fucking crazy?Not everyone has a built-in saving mechanism to become ghosts, the water will flow into—” Jaxs words stopped short as he turned his head to the tunnel, seeing exactly what I already had. Thatchers and sentries had been using it to go into the Dome, despite Jaxs and I trying to keep them contained inside MonClem, but now they couldn’t leave. There was a barrier around the opening. I watched as sentry after sentry bolted forward, only to fall backward from the momentum.
“What the hell? Do you have more than one Token?”
I shook my head. “It’s Aura.”
“Oh fucking Moons, have mercy on my soul.” Jaxs mimicked the worshipping hands of two crescent moons as he folded them above his head. “I’m fighting with an insane ghost.”
“Just trust me or we’re going to die down here anyway,” I seethed as a thatcher’s talon scraped up my forearm, cutting into the leather shirt Jaxs gave me.
“Fine,” Jaxs said as Bluey scooped down, letting him run up his back. His claw opened, his talons spreading before closing around me.My stomach jolted as he launched into the sky, clearing the cabins surrounding the perimeter.
It only took one second before thatchers started following us into the air. But it didn’t matter, the Caerulus moon was fully forward, and I prayed it was enough power for Jaxs to do what he needed.
“Now, Jaxs,” I screamed, hoping he could hear me.
A wave of water swarmed over the mountain range. Any thatcher that was airborne, fell back onto the ground from the force.
Bluey let out a single roar before dousing the lake in his fire.
The water sizzled, turning from a deep blue to gray as iron melted off the sentries and the leathery part of the thatchers turned to ash.
I was full on grinning as Aura’s shield worked. Everything was confined into the village.
Pressure seared inside my head before I heard it,“MAGNOLIA?—”
Dahes’ voice ruptured my eardrums from the inside out.
Shit.
He knew I got out of my cage.
Chapter Fifty
Herina
HAEL
My dagger was pressed against Elion’s neck. Dahes’ command coursing through my body, begging me to break skin, to push harder.
He was gloating, sitting on Elion’s throne as I pulled him beneath it. My legs straddling his chest to stop him from moving.
