Chapter 5The Duke was barking out orders even as he was manhandled off the platform by his bodyguards and carried to safety. His staff in turn shouted orders to their troops to rally against whatever threat this was, and several NEA had rushed to the now crumbling wall when another explosion rocked the grounds, this time in the middle of the group of soldiers. Limbs and blood scattered like leaves throughout the sky. Alice grabbed my arm and pulled me behind the platform away from the c*****e.
A man, riding one horse and leading another, came charging through the smoke and leaped off his mount onto the platform. He shot the executioner cleanly through the head before cutting the woman’s bindings and guiding her onto the back of the second horse in one fluid motion. He was wearing, of all
