Elara smiled. “I’m not a hero.”
She arrived at the collapse point just as Lira’s army was routed. The Champions fell back north, exactly as Elara had predicted. They were exhausted, burned, and dying of thirst. Kinfolk Unsung Heroes Pdf
Elara watched them march away. She knew Lira meant well. But she also knew the Cinder Fields had only one source of clean water—a spring that flowed south from the old dwarven aqueduct. And she knew, from old Bren’s maps, that the aqueduct had a collapse point. If the Champions were pushed north, they would be trapped without water. Elara smiled
She remembered that her nephew, Corin, was allergic to bluecap pollen. She remembered that the old well on the eastern ridge ran dry every seventh moon. She remembered that the Screecher Hounds, for all their fangs, could not cross running water. They were exhausted, burned, and dying of thirst