48. Bayn
BAYN
“I command you to ignore those fucking Sylphim!”
The words sliced through this all-wrong, fucked-up vision of Izzy dominating me. It vanished in an instant as her binding on me pulsed with power, her command sinking in.
Had she just saved me?
Again.
First, against my father, now this.
How could I ever have imagined Izzy hurting me?
But I hadn’t imagined it at all, had I? It was those damned sylphim.
I roared, unleashing my earth magic. Spikes of stone eviscerated anything withing twenty feet of me, reaching high enough to spear those damned flying angels too.
But it seemed the enemy thought I was a significant threat, as even more of Valnea’s forces rushed me.
More sylphim tried to penetrate my mind, but Izzy’s command forbade it, keeping them out.
And for the first time, I saw her binding on me not as a curse or something to be feared or removed, but a blessing. Not once had she ever made me do anything I hadn’t wanted to. And now she was somehow boosting my own mental defenses, her binding more powerful than the sylphim’s mind powers.
In the half-a-heartbeat before I was swamped again, I took in the field around me. The other guys were fighting hard. Had they always been freed? Had the sylphim not affected them? No… there were wounds on them.
And even as I watched, Myel, on wings of steel, sliced through a group nearby. That little shifter was… something else. I’d never seen any shifter take out elves like that.
Now it was my turn.
Though I hesitated as my sweeping gaze fell to Izzy and the sword puncturing her gut.
She needed me.
She’d freed me, and I needed to return the favor. With another roar, I blasted earth all around me. Though the elves were prepared this time and most defended themselves, stopping my earthen attack.
Fuck!
Myel landed next to me. “Don’t worry about Izzy,” he said with a massive manic grin as he spun, wings out, cutting down more of the foe. “She’ll be fine. She’s got Valnea right where she wants her.”
Truly?
Myel was bound to Izzy in a far deeper way than I was and he didn’t seem worried at all. I should trust him.
Ha!
Trust.
I hadn’t trusted anyone for ages, but…
I did trust this little kick-ass shifter… and Izzy. I trusted her to have my back, to free me from my chains, and to be the indomitable warrior that she was.
So, I joined Myel in this fight. Slowly, we pushed toward Izzy, where Vyns was keeping a space around her.
Then a dragon landed nearby, Koar. And a flaming demon burned through more of the foe, Rook. With their aid, the four of us pushed through to where Vyns kept the others at bay and watched our woman be the badass she was.