Amelia shook her head, certain for a moment that she’d heard another speaking to her. She looked around with her eyes and her mind but only saw those she expected to see.
Amelia! Help him!
Jenny’s command burned into her brain, shaking her out of her momentary confusion. Amelia swung her attention back to Brian and jumped the short distance between them. She drew her own weapon, seeing blood spurt from Brian’s side as the man’s sword bit into his flesh.
Without pause she cut down the attacker, who hadn’t even noticed her arrival, then lunged past Brian, running through the woman with her blade. The woman stiffened, her face going pale, slumping back as she jerked out her sword. She was still alive but Amelia dismissed her. She was only human and with that injury, unlike the Kin, who wou
