“We both failed you miserably. And we failed ourselves as well. And each other.”Jessica was right. Kara really was the innocent party here. And wh...n I thought about it, she’d always been the innocent party. Even when she walked out on me, it was really my fault for not doing a better job of protecting her. For not being the man she needed me to be. That had been true with Becky the first time and Becky the second time. And true with the incidents with Joyce. And with what had happened with. "The feast was wonderful and Goslyn was pulled away almost as soon as it was over. I had a couple of guys surround me and they started talking and trying to get me to tell what Goslyn and I had done. I did not want to share that and just shrugged. When one of the older guys began a spell of compulsion to make me talk I almost panicked and threw up a shield.I did not expected a repeating echo as Goslyn's magic joined mine and the boy was thrown across the room and against the far wall. There was. The Malakha have tried to recall their elite units, but Hinnit’s sanctums have them pinned down. The Senior Malakha is sounding desperate now.”“They’d spread themselves too thin,” I chuckled. “What’s that old maxim? He who defends everything, defends nothing?”“Very true in this case,” Arch replied. “They way outnumber us, but we can bring more troops and Mages to focus at any one place and destroy them in detail. The collapse of their communications network helps a lot too as all they have is. " Luana's soft fingers soothed his aching head as it lay in her lap. "The hole's blocked, but I'm afraid it won't hold for very long." Boy, what a head!" He groaned as he tried to sit up, then essayed a feeble grin up at her concerned face. "At least the adventurous life does have some compensations. How long was I out?" Only a minute or two. You brought down a bunch of rocks with you when we pulled you in by your heels, but they were mostly little ones and we got you loose all right. Those.