Chapter 408: Home, One Last Time
The three princesses ran, fleeing ahead of the mass of mana that had appeared behind them.
For a brief instant, Kordia admonished herself for not noticing it first, but her recriminations fell aside as they approached the bridge.
Confused guards approached, but no sooner had they taken a rough formation than she swatted them aside with a spell of pure force. Only their captain was quick enough to recover as he shouted, "Halt by the order of Queen Fruhe!" before she leaped into the air.
Another wall of force formed beneath her as she turned, ready to help Kassin and Lapins. The latter hopped onto Kordia’s spell, but Kassin’s toe caught the railing of the stowed-away bridge and she started to tumble.
Or he would have, had not Kordia and Lapins reached down to grab her by the wrists.
"Agh!" Sin cried out as a branch bloomed from her leg. Crossbow bolts began to rain down around them, and Lapins put up a shield as Kordia lengthened her floor of force towards the Mora half of the bridge, only to find it folding away as the guards on the opposite side turned the wheel that controlled it.
Lifting up Sin, Kordia and Lapins helped her across as Kordia was forced to expend more mana. They were three-quarters of the way there when she appeared...
"Cease fire or I will throw you in that pit myself!" Fruhe shouted from atop a fiery red fox spirit, edged with black and golden markings.
"Yes, Queen!" half of the border guards snapped to attention while the other half were still dazed from the sudden turn of events. Then, in a single bound, the spirit fox landed in front of Kordia, Sin, and Lapins right as they took their first steps onto Mora territory.
The Mora clan guards, led by a ferrekin captain, looked stunned as their princess and the queen of their biggest trading partner landed before them.
"Princess Kordia? What is going on?"