The vampiress breathed heavily while I menaced over her. Melyiana prepared to die by my side and forty knights were ready to lay waste to their settlement on my command.

“We will help them but we’re not doing it for you,” she finally said. I held my hand to help her up but she smacked it aside.

We followed the Barrownor warriors through the gauntlet of traps and deadends until we reached the village inside a crater caused by an impact from the heavens. Fires illuminated ...