The Tree of Story (2013)
“All night the catapults of the Nightbane had launched smoking black stones at the walls. Stones that burst into flame when they struck and shook the fortress from its turrets to its foundations. The defenders had struggled to shore up the wall with timbers in the places where it seemed weakest and most likely to give, but they could not work fast enough in the face of the unending barrage. At last, with an avalanche of broken stone, one large section of wall caved inward. When the dust cleared,... the Nightbane that had been gathering on the slope below the fortress came charging up to the gap.
Finn Madoc was at the breach with his brother’s Stormriders. They’d had just enough warning of the wall’s collapse that they’d had time to gather and form a wall of their own, with their long shields overlapping one another. There was no keep to fall back to. The shattered wall opened directly onto one of the lower passageways of the fortress and had to be defended at all costs.
The Nightbane in their hundreds poured through the breach, howling and brandishing their weapons.MoreLess
Finn Madoc was at the breach with his brother’s Stormriders. They’d had just enough warning of the wall’s collapse that they’d had time to gather and form a wall of their own, with their long shields overlapping one another. There was no keep to fall back to. The shattered wall opened directly onto one of the lower passageways of the fortress and had to be defended at all costs.
The Nightbane in their hundreds poured through the breach, howling and brandishing their weapons.MoreLess
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