TWENTY-ONE
For a rooster, Yi sure was heavy, Mai grumbled to herself as she shoved him off her. She'd slammed into the city wall, thrown by the explosion as Li's flaming missile hit the fuel storage hut that now no longer existed. The smell of scorched flesh reached her nose and Mai gagged. Only then did she notice that some of the fuel had landed on Yi's armour, where it still burned. She tried rolling him along the ground to extinguish the flames, but it was no use. Finally, she stripped his armour off him, but the damage was done. His back was a b****y mess that only the healers could take care of. She had to get him back to camp.
Another missile landed on the wall overhead, sending out a splash of orange light as it engulfed one of the fire lances. She had to move quickly, or both s
