Chapter 43 : What Do You See?

~VANNIE~

They were still looking back at her, shaken to their cores, but angry, and that was all that mattered to her.

"I don't know how long we'll have to stay there. But we will be ready when they attack us, and we will fight for every helpless Inlander that can't, do you understand me?"

Their roar of assent shook the grounds. She could already feel the danger looming on the horizon, ready to swallow the lands whole. "Pair up and watch each other's backs. Remember, all these could end very soon. Just stick to our plan and do exactly as I tell you."

They bowed and left the palace in a march, picking up weapons as they left. The Inlanders in the safe houses couldn't cheer them on this time, but she felt their anticipation through the pack link. The Keepers must like to know the other Inlanders were as involved as possible.