They moved again, faster now. The street ahead had collapsed into a crater. A pile of what looked like two carriages burned on its edge. Bodies lay scattered across the market stalls, most too broken to recognize.
Something roared behind them. Something else answered from the rooftops.
"I thought this was supposed to be a quick drop-in," Sylric said, already channeling mana into his sleeves. "You said, 'just check the area.'"
"And you said, 'I don't like cities. They always explode.'"
"And what did this one do?"
She didn't answer.
Another shape moved near the well up ahead, thin, twitching, crawling like its joints had forgotten how to work. A former soldier by the look of it. Now twisted. His blade dragged behind him like it weighed too much.
Luneth raised her hand.
A spike of frost launched straight into the center of its chest, pinning it to a collapsed fruit stall.
It didn't stop moving.
Not right away.