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The veil thinned and parted and the guards on point strode forward, moving through the veil one moment and striding along the dirt road leading into the village the next. Alex and Kyle followed with their guards spreading out around them. All of them were too professional to show any of the shock they felt at the devastation they walked into. One and all they fell back on duty.
Alex’s eyes swept around as he walked down the road leading through the village, taking in the blackened shells of what had been homes, most of them now burnt to the ground. The bodies of villagers lay scattered in the streets, left to rot. Large birds of prey circled above.
Alex saw the signs that meant this attack was far from something commonplace, the hole in the side of what had been the local m
