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Nothing.
“It’s done?” Amarra asked, still holding my arm tightly.
I nodded.
“Good,” she said. “Now, we’ll fight our way to the others.”
She gestured toward the lake and I followed her gaze.
They appeared amidst the fog. Seelie Soldiers, all dressed in red.
They carried torches as they reached the little clearing between the tents. They were setting tents on fire.
“We should clear the eastern...” the brown-haired soldier said before his eyes met mine. Recognition flickered in his gaze. “That’s her. Get her!”
Brigid’s sword became ablaze upon her command as I felt the wind picking up beside me. One of the soldiers immediately dropped to the ground, screaming in agony.
“You did that?” I asked Amarra.
“Yes,” she whispered. “Now, it’s four against four.”
Four soldiers remained as the one whose mind was taken kept thrashing on the ground. Casja went for the tall woman, who was an air elemental judging by the wind picking up around her as she steadied herself for a fight.
Brigid turned to the other two. One of them was a fire elemental like her and the other a shapeshifter. As the shapeshifter shifted into a wolf, Brigid attacked the fire elemental with her sword. She sent a ball of fire at the wolf, and the wolf howled as Brigid’s sword slashed through the fire elemental’s right leg.
The soldier on the right was a light crafter. He disappeared as soon as the fighting began, and as the other two started clashing with Brigid, the light crafter came right at me.
I could not see him, but I could feel the pulsing of his blood. If I focused harder, I could sense the subtle flexing of his muscles and the minute tearing they incurred. His mind was closed off to me now that I’d blocked everyone out, but his body was not.
My blade went into his shoulder blade. He hadn’t been protecting it since he thought I could not see him. His sword dropped to the ground, becoming visible as his magic withdrew from it.
“I’m sorry,” I whispered to him as I pushed him to the ground. There was a chance he could survive the bleeding.
I turned to help Brigid.
She didn’t seem to need my help. She took care of the two soldiers with swift motions of her sword, and within seconds, one was trying to escape her grip while the wolf shifter was limp on the ground. Amarra hadn’t even gotten a chance to get involved when Brigid took care of the last soldier.
Casja sent a wall of ice on the black-haired woman, and despite the wall of wind around her, the ice hit her hard, throwing her to the tent that wasn’t on fire. The tent collapsed and she fell in, and she didn’t get up.
Casja turned around to face us.
“Anyone wounded?” I asked.
They all shook their heads.
“Let’s go,” I whispered.
We passed by some burnt tents and limp bodies. I checked on each with my magic but none of them showed any signs of life. The ground was muddy despite the dry air. When I realized it was their blood that muddied the ground, a deep ache settled inside of me.
We didn’t encounter anyone else as we made our way to the lake, but as soon as we got there, I realized our mistake.
“Stop,” I whispered to the others, gesturing them to hide behind the tree line.
“What?” Brigid asked, keeping her voice low.
The fog made it impossible to see, but I could feel their hearts beating.
Monster folk had changed after years of living as monsters. Their insides were different. And now that I closed myself off to their minds, I could tell the difference using my healing magic.
