Victor of Tucson - Chapter 43Book 10: : Awake

... the towering walls of Iron Mountain’s seat of power. He’d nearly left, bored to tears by the painstakingly slow progress of the Elementalists as they worked to remove the boundary stones Queen Kynna had put up. When he’d volunteered to lead the assault force, eager to see the slaughter of the House of Dar, he’d expected it to be a quick thing—a jaunt in the countryside punctuated with a few choice moments of violence.

He wondered how Kynna had known to prepare for them. Not only had she ...