ResolutionBy the time I had the strength to look up, the battle was almost over. Though the fighters had been pushed back to the last barricade, that barricade was intact, and no new nightbringers streamed out of the woods. The archers fired a last volley of arrows, then lowered their bows as the remaining nightbringers engaged the fighters.
I lay there as the fighters hacked the nightbringers into dust. I thought vaguely that I should get up, but the thought had no power to move my leaden body.
“Chase,” a nearby voice said. I turned my head and recognised Hayyan. “You all right?”
“I am fine,” I said habitually.
Hayyan started to laugh but then their eyes went to my back. “Krek, Chase,” they said.
They kneeled over me and brushed their delicate hands over my fur. “You lost a lot of fu
