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A dark swarm of anger and fear begins to swirl inside me, but before it can churn into a storm, Diana taps a claw on my chest.
I glare down at her and snap, “She’s pregnant. She should have listened to me and stayed safe.”
Diana tilts her head in a way that seems to say, “Well, then she must have had a good reason for coming. Why don’t you hear her out first and have a bossy freak out later?”
I stalk away from the helicopter to set Diana down on the grass before I mutter, “Just remember, you’re in charge of protecting this woman if I can’t, and she won’t make it easy for you. We’ll see how you like it when it’s your orders she’s ignoring.”
I’m still angry—very angry—but when the chopper lands and Willow emerges, her hair swirling in the wind from the slowing blades, and runs toward me, I hold out my arms and pull her in for a fierce hug.
“The worst,” I grumble into her hair. “You’re the worst.”
She pulls back to meet me gaze. “I had no other choice. You need me here so I can tell you what I see as soon as I see it.” Excitement sparks in her eyes. “And you’re going to be glad I came. There’s a man coming with an army of animals. He’s an ally and means well, but you have to send someone to meet him and tell him not to detonate his explosives until after he talks with us. If he does—”
Her words are cut off by a boom so loud it shakes the ground and vibrates up my legs, rattling my bones. My ears begin to ring, but I can still hear the shocked sounds echoing through my troops and Willow uttering a string of curse words so foul I know we’re in trouble, even before she says, “Too late for that, then, but if we move fast, we can hopefully keep this from getting any worse.”
She glances over my shoulder. “We should join your commanders and let everyone hear this at once. The portals are already collapsing,” she says, her eyes beginning to glow, proving this isn’t theoretical information. “We have fifteen, twenty minutes tops before the enemy forces left on this side find Bane and set him free.”
My jaw drops, but before I can say anything, Willow grabs my sleeve and starts toward Sam and the others, “Yeah, he’s alive,” she says grimly. “Sort of. And if we don’t stop him, he’s about to destroy life as we know it.”
