Page 152 of The Shadow Path
“I’ll be with you!” Carys yelled. “Cadell will lay down fire and kill the fae sorcerers after you break the ward.”I’m not leaving him on his own in front of a giant army.
Yes, because your expert archery skills are enough to take on three thousand Éiren troops.
Duncan’s eyes were wide and his chest was heaving. “Carys, that puts both of us in danger. You can’t?—”
“I don’t think they’re going to attack us,” Carys said. “I don’t think the soldiers down there even know where they are.”
“You’re guessing!” Duncan shouted.
“Yes.” Carys had no idea why she was so sure this was going to work except for that persistent voice that might have been a goddess telling her to break the enchantment and end the battle. “But I’m pretty sure I’m right.”
We’re going back to the line.Cadell started to rise and turn back to the plain.
“Stop!” Carys shouted at the dragon. “I think if I can tell Finola what is going on and how Cian is using the Éiren army, all this will stop. The Queens’ Pact won’t be broken. Harold will negotiate. This battle can stay between Cian and Dru!”
Duncan kept his eyes on hers, but Cadell was already turning.
“I must be fucking in love with you, Carys Morgan, because I think you’re right too.” Duncan grabbed her around the waist and pulled her in for a ferocious kiss. Then he released her and yelled, “Dragon, put me down!”
I’ll put him down, but you’re staying in the coracle.
I’m going with him.
Then we’re not setting down.
Cadell, put us down.Carys stared into Duncan’s eyes, willing her confidence into him as her dragon roared his frustration overhead.
Nêrys, you have no backup! This is foolish and I will not drop you. We’ll find a way to get a message to Dru.
No.She kept her eyes on Duncan’s, nodding as she saw the resolve settle in his eyes.This is the right thing to do. This is going to work.
Duncan gripped her hand in his. “All right. I’m with you.”
How do you know?
The whispering voice came again to Carys’s mind.Ogwen Valley. Just say Ogwen Valley.
“Ogwen Valley!” Carys shouted.
Complete silence in her mind; then Cadell wheeled around, descending rapidly, parallel to the line of the Éiren army.
A moment later, she felt the bottom of the coracle rock along the ground.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
The coracle rocked forward.
The door slammed open.
Before Carys could even draw her bow, two fae warriors were at the door and Duncan slashed across their chests.
Silver blood burst from their skin as their armor dissolved to nothing and they stood, naked and shaking with wounds in their chest and eyes wide and terrified.
Carys didn’t even wait a moment before she let loose with her bow.
Without armor to block it, the arrow flew through the fae’s chest and stuck out the other side, knocking the man back as the other ran.
“Iarann!” he shouted as he ran down the angled door of the coracle.
