13 It was the heart of that eve before the brothers and their Others were the only ones left at the table in the Great Hall. The stable fire had been extinguished, with no injuries to human or animal being reported. The Roanoak bodies of the soldiers they had lost were returned to the families. If they had no families, the clergy took them for a church burial. All who had been wounded were treated and sent home. The difference in those killed or injured were far fewer compared to Baltura’s side. Kaden, Anson, and Zander had broken the dark spell that snared the creatures. Anson and Soren again cleared the plane of black magicks and reinforced the wardings. Zander took reports from the soldiers and those who worked in the stables. He’d shared the tactics the mercenaries used so they would

