CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
“We know where they’re coming from,” Sebastian said as the first rays of dawn illuminated the palace’s roof. “Get every weapon we have trained on the point where they’ll breach.”
“I will,” Will promised him. “But you have to think about running. You can disappear into the city.”
“If I run, then people will lose heart and there will be a slaughter,” Sebastian said. He couldn’t allow that. He couldn’t let the people of Ashton be killed just so that he could save himself.
“You need to think about Violet,” Will said.
Sebastian knew that he was right. His biggest fear now was that something might happen to his daughter, but running wasn’t the answer to that. There were too many crows in the sky to slip out without being seen with her, and the thought of sending her away
