Wishes
“WTH? For a moment I thought that the queen had put some sort of spell on me that made me hallucinate. But I could tell by the expression on her face that she was as surprised as I was.“Peter?” I asked tentatively. “Get out, Katy!” he shouted as he swung a tree branch at the guards. The dragon blew a plume of fire at some others on his flank. “Get up!” the queen shouted to the dying guards. “Your job is to protect me. Me, do you understand? Not yourselves. Me.”I watched as Peter knocked the head... off one of the guards. It rolled toward me, the metal of its visor clanking as it came to rest at my feet. I felt sick until I noticed there was no blood. There was, in fact, no head at all. The queen’s army was nothing but a collection of enchanted armor. If they had ever been real people—the bodies belonging to the bones, maybe—they had long since ceased to exist as anything other than wraiths.“Leave while you can,” Peter said breathlessly, hanging on while the dragon smashed its deadly tail into more guards.“Are you crazy?”MoreLess
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