The great creature broke from the treeline like a landslide given purpose, and Luna, sprinting down the ridge with her five husbands close around her, watched House Marrow's carefully assembled army dissolve into instant, screaming chaos the moment her enormous shape crashed into their perimeter. Soldiers scattered. Horses reared and bolted. Commander Ilsa's voice rose somewhere in the confusion, shouting orders that clearly weren't landing fast enough to matter.
"Now!" Kade shouted, and the six of them broke from cover, driving directly for the Shrine's shattered altar at its center while the bulk of Marrow's forces scrambled to respond to a threat considerably larger and more terrifying than anything their briefing had prepared them for.
Luna's world narrowed to the immediate, brutal n
