~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 ...