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Kamira stared at Kaighal’s plan, marked with countless black lines. No matter how she adjusted them, the port remained the planned circle’s weak spot. Going along the shorelines would allow for tightening the energy flow, but meant giving up part of the city along with its walls that provided a more physical defense in case magic failed. Even if stone couldn’t keep the higher demons away, at least it would stem the wave of the demonlings she was certain would come with them. But to preserve the walls meant stretching the magic defense thin between the ends of twin crescent piers that guarded the port like stone jaws.
Yet her mind was not on the task, and lack of focus kept her from making a decision, any decision. Nyk, where are you? It’d been already a day since he set out to uncover
