*Saoirse*

I could not remember a time that such a gloomy, depressed aura hung in the Egoren war room. Though we had been victorious over Pyroth’s forces days ago, we had suffered tremendous losses.

The families of the fallen openly grieved, and the wounded overran the hospitals to the point where volunteers had been called in from even the far-flung provinces.

And this was only the beginning.

Pyroth, the rampaging sociopath, was still nowhere to be ...