Aria’s POV
Ines and Victor found us near the chamber entrance, both breathing hard from the diversion, blood on Ines's sleeve from a shallow wound she waved off before anyone could fuss over it.
"The perimeter's scattered," Ines reported. "Half of Magnus's forces fled the moment they realized the fight wasn't going their way. The rest surrendered or ran." She took in the chamber behind us, the calm light still emanating from the stone circle, and her expression shifted. "It's done, then."
"It's done," Kael confirmed. "Magnus fled. We let him go."
"You let him go," Victor repeated, something sharp in his tone.
"He lost everything he spent two decades building," I said. "Whatever he does next, he does it without the power he was chasing, and without the forces he had guarding this vall
