Chapter 23
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Ellery
I didn’t know what was scarier… guards in the woods, creeping further into the forest as the fire progressed, or armed poltergeists.
Sometimes the specters managed to get a hold of knives and swords, but for the most part, sticks and stones were their common armaments. While they could kill with them, they usually didn’t. I had no doubt they’d use any weapons we gave them to slaughter.
“We have some weapons to spare,” Ianto said. “But not many.”
“We’ll take whatever you’ve got,” Farley said.
“We need all of the rainmakers!” Ryker yelled at the crowd.
“Do you think there’s enough of us that we can stay here and extinguish the fires?” I asked.
Ryker glanced at the sky before surveying the group of amsirah coming closer to us. There were around seven hundred amsirah in the encampment, and about a quarter of them came to stand in front of us.
“I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe, combined with your abilities, it would be enough, but there’s a lot of acreage in the Revenant Woods, and we’d have to cover all of it since we can’t see exactly where the flames are.”
“I don’t think it will work; there’s not enough of us,” Tucker said. “But we could go into the woods and get close enough to put out half the fires. After that, we can return here and focus our attention on the remaining ones.”
“Get us as many poltergeists as you can as fast as you can,” Ryker said to Farley. “And then meet us back here. The rest of you work on gathering as many as you can before meeting us at the Calsar fire.”
They all bobbed their agreement.
“What about our weapons?” Farley inquired.