The blade was sharp enough that she didn’t feel the initial prick, but it didn’t matter. The earth beside her opened up and the knife slid from her attacker’s suddenly nerveless hand, thudding to the ground about the same time she did. His grip on her hand disappeared the instant that something else emerged in a blast of stone and magic. Wynn’s cavalry had arrived, in the form of one very large and very angry Guardian, a Guardian that was supposed to be nothing but the teeny-tiny pieces still scattered around her. Huh. How about that?

The blade was sharp enough that she didn’t feel the initial prick, but it didn’t matter. The earth beside her opened up and the knife slid from her attacker’s suddenly nerveless hand, thudding to the ground about the same time she did. His grip on her hand disappeared the instant that something else emerged in a blast of stone and magic. Wynn’s cavalry had arrived, in the form of one very large and very angry Guardian, a Guardian that was supposed to be nothing but the teeny-tiny pieces still scattered around her. Huh. How about that?

– Christine Warren –

Hard as a Rock

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