The undain were still out there, their massing fury clear, but they were getting no closer. For the moment there was nothing she could do.
At one point she heard a whispering presence in her mind, very weak. She'd felt something similar before, when the Bone Harvesters came and she'd had the weird sensation of a ghost passing through her mind. Was she under attack? Was this Charis or one of the other undain lords creeping into her thoughts? With an effort she cast the presence away, refusing to allow it inside her. She waited for it to attack again, for its tendrils to come creeping through the night to find her. But there was nothing. Perhaps she'd banished it, or perhaps she was exhausted and imagining spectres that weren't there. She put it out of her mind, and concentrated on moving w
