I wanted to look up, to see what it was that was up there, but I was blinded by a sudden fluttering darkness.
The Maras were fleeing. They were pulling free from the sleeping Thors around us and running away.
One of them blew right through me, and a sudden rush of gratitude washed over me. I sensed the Mara"s misery over its long imprisonment and forced labor there in the tower.
Then it was gone. They all were.
"What did we just set free?" Kara asked, and I blanched.
We had unleashed, if not demons, monsters with malicious appetites. My only hope was they would find few to harm so far in the north. And after feeding off the Thors for so long, I doubted they would feel their hunger again for a long, long time.
I had taken Reginleif"s knife from the shadow man inside the dream, and it
