Just end this damned war," he growled back before snapping the reins.
With a grunt and a huff the two oxen began to pull his cart forward, and the old food merchant carried on down the tunnel. Ssz'Vasbryn didn't waste time watching him leave. She turned on her heel and broke into a full sprint down the corridor after her troops. It didn't take her long to reach a point where the corridor bell-mouthed into a larger chamber, where her eleven sisters were finishing off a section of human guards that had been guarding the steel double doors at the far end of the room
The gate won't close! Hit the alarm bell!" cried one of them, drawing Ssz'Vasbryn's attention to the portal into the castle.
Two humans were pulling on separate chains that fed into a series of pulleys hooked to the doors. Ke
