Fragments of War (31)

The motionless Nightmare Creatures around them were not dead…

However, they weren't really alive, either. 

There was no vile darkness permeating their souls anymore, because the dead had no souls. But there was something. 

A strange, almost imperceptible impression of foreign essence hidden deep within the towering carcasses, binding them like puppeteer's strings. 

Sunny felt a cold chill run down his spine. 

'These are… Queen's pilgrims.'

The siege of the Greater Crossing was such a bloody and arduous endeavor for many reasons, and the fearsome fortifications built by the Song Army on the other side of the chasm was merely one of them. 

Terrain was another, but just as importantly, it was the issue of Domain boundaries.