CHAPTER FIFTEEN“So,” said Queen Solemnia Celena of Bucansi, “our allies, the Rebels of the Phoenix, are in a temporary truce with their king until the Avadierish threat has been dealt with?” Normally, this meeting would have been held in the tactics room, but the immortals had decided to crash it. So, here they were in the throne room—the smaller space in the tactics room with the immortals made it difficult for the humans to breathe. After discovering that the general received news from the phoenix every week, the immortals had become very interested in her powers and started spending a lot of time around the general to glean more information about the mysterious phoenixes. He didn’t mind—aside from how their continued presence made his bones scream. But it also meant the immortals wer

