The gate was a hundred yards away. Leah could hear Innocen shouting obscenities behind her as she ran. She hazarded a look over her shoulder. He limped after her, but even on an injured leg, his aurym-fueled speed was inhuman. She would have had better luck outrunning a steed. In seconds, he would close the distance.

Leah turned sharply around the corner of a building. Up ahead was a mass of shields. It was the Endenholm phalanx that had defended the breach in the wall. They stood ...