The wall exploded.
I was thrown from my feet, the shockwave slamming me against the stone floor of the Warrens' main hall. Dust and debris rained down from the ceiling. Screams echoed from outside—the screams of the dying.
"Kaelen!" Mira's voice cut through the chaos. She was at my side, pulling me up. "The eastern wall is down. They're breaching the perimeter."
I staggered to my feet, my ears ringing. "How many?"
"Hundreds. Maybe more." Her face was pale. "They've been holding back their full force. This is the real attack."
I grabbed my weapons, my mind racing. We'd prepared for a siege. We'd fortified the walls, stockpiled supplies, trained our defenders. But nothing could have prepared us for this.
"Get everyone to the inner keep," I said. "We make our stand there."
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