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Cari, I said. They’ll enter the castle soon.
I know, Cari said as the moat stirred underneath the bridge. I can’t hold them off.
I looked toward the elite unit as the water on the moat moved and shone. I had no idea which one of them was a water elemental.
The horn that was blown in the distance distracted me from the moat. I had a second to decide where to send my next attack, and quickly as I saw the elite battalion riding up the hill, I made my decision. If the elite unit reached us, it would all be over.
Tell Gethin to hurry, I sent the thought to Cari before I searched my mind for a way to stop the coming army.
I had to try.
Letting my mind drift onto the ground on the other side of the moat, I imagined a world I had only seen once before. Upon my command, the sky right above the ground tore, letting the fire of hell on the other side seep through.
The row of fire did appear as I had hoped, but it wasn’t wide enough to cover the whole moat.
No matter how hard I tried to tear open the rift in the sky to enlarge it, it would not grow.
The elite unit reached the top of the hill right then. One of their elementals reached toward my flimsy wall of fire and met it with his water. The sound of dying fire filled the air.
The rift closed.
They kept coming.
I tried to open the rift again, to no avail. The cavalry had almost reached the moat and as I turned to my side to see what the water elemental was doing, I realized that was only a figment of my imagination.
We did not have a water elemental at the battlement.
My eyes darted toward the moat once again. It still shimmered, but the water did not move toward the bridge to cover it like I had hoped it would.
No. This wasn’t the water coming to our defense.
This was a portal.
It had to be the enemy. They had tricked us into focusing on the army ahead while they found a way to appear at our doorstep. I was sure of it.
It was a great tactic. There was no way of stopping them. All I could do was watch.
The moat became a portal. And as I stared at it, fascinated at the scale of magic despite myself, I saw her.
Jasmine climbed out of the portal, grabbing onto the stone and lining up the moat to pull herself outward.
And all around her, the monster folk appeared, their magic crackling up the sky above.
