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They are here! I shouted as loudly as I could without using my voice. They’re using the portals to come in. Take the prisoners out! Now!
Gethin says the portals are closed, Cari replied quickly as though she had been waiting in my mind. He cannot open them.
They will come through the portals, I said.
“We should break the mirrors.”
Cari’s approval echoed inside my mind.
It took me a moment to realize the words were said out loud.
When I looked to my side, I saw Casja.
Calm washed over me.
She was here.
“How?” I asked. “They’re blocking the mirrors.”
She did not meet my gaze.
Other soldiers had already stepped out of the portal. More were coming.
I felt the air around me becoming crisp with the cold. At first, I thought the tingling of my skin was the usual nervousness before battle, but then, small drops of ice appeared all over the room.
Casja’s hair lifted as the wind howled against it. She did not even move a finger as pellets of frozen rain crashed into the mirrors, breaking them into a thousand little pieces that exploded all around us.
The soldiers inside the room ducked to avoid the broken glass, and I shielded my eyes using my sword. The sound of mirrors breaking was deafening. A small piece cut through my cheek, but the adrenaline prevented me from feeling any pain. The only clue I had was the sensation of wetness as blood drizzled out.
For a moment, no one moved.
All the pieces of the mirrors were on the ground when the sound stopped. It only took a few seconds, but the soldiers shook off the shock rather quickly. They braced themselves for a fight, their expressions twisting in concern.
“What now?” Casja asked.
I thought she was speaking to me, but Cari responded quickly.
We broke all the mirrors inside the prison, she said. But more will be coming. We cannot leave quickly enough. We have protection inside the castle, we need to use it to stall them until we can open enough portals. The soldiers who are in the room with you... I sense them, but I cannot control them. Their minds are protected.
How? I asked.
I don’t know, Cari replied. They must have mind magickers with them.
Casja nodded as though she had heard Cari’s words too.
Ten soldiers had already come in through the portals before Casja had managed to break the mirrors. It was only two of us, and I could see some of the soldiers already calling on their powers.
But there was no running from this. If these soldiers got out of this room, all would be over.
My eyes darted across the soldiers who had come in. They were Unseelie, but I did not recognize any of them.
I considered myself lucky for that.
“Now we fight,” I said.
Wind howled against our attackers when Casja and I took on a fighting stance. Our backs were turned to each other while the soldiers circled us. The woman who had entered through the portal first raised her sword and moved swiftly, going right for my head. I met her blow. The clashing sound of metal filled the room.
Behind me, Casja met a fireball sent by one of the soldiers with a shield of ice, protecting us both.
