He whistled, signaling to his distant allies on wing and below, but though he knew the plan for spotting some sign from the air had been for Larch to go down and gather a party, including the queen if she was near enough, and then report back to Kelwyn before anyone took any action, Kelwyn couldn’t wait. Something bad enough had happened for Harun to set a house on fire, and risk setting the whole neighborhood ablaze. Just then Kelwyn heard a faint, distant crack, and saw smoke begin to pour out of a window, shattered by the heat. The fire wouldn’t hurt Harun, but what about whatever threat had caused him to start such a conflagration?
So even as Larch dropped down out of the sky and Ruven swerved in his direction, Kelwyn, knowing it was stupid but unable to do anything else, folded his w
