Chapter 74. On the March

Lyra POV

“Please be careful,” Mother says, her arms wrapped tightly around me.

“I will,” I promise her.

I pull back, turning around to see Cassian standing by the coach, speaking with his Beta. Turgan will come with us this time, while several generals hang back and command the warriors who stay behind to guard the castle and the city.

We’re going straight into enemy territory, and the idea sends a chill through me.

This is an act of war, though Assanan did it first with the way he stormed into Oceana with his zombie warriors, as Cassian calls them.

It’s frightening, the way the dark power controlled ordinary citizens, causing them to fight against their will, and with no training. Many of them were young, just teenagers. Freyja told me that the dark p