Calamity [3]

A day passed without much change in matters. Faldren and Valerie occupied the western half of the battlefield, Raphael kept his ground in the central border city, and everyone else waited where they were assigned for their leaders to make the next move.

If there was one thing to note, it was that Estavian had gathered the roughly two hundred soldiers who managed to escape from the city's destruction and formed a line to confront Raphael.

Well, that was what Raphael believed their purpose to be, but he was severely overestimating his importance in this war.

Because he'd been allowed to gather most of their army and make them loyal to only him, because he was able to get whatever he wanted from August through trades that he believed only benefited him, he believed that he was the pivotal point of everything.

And in a sense, he was.

Just not in the way that he expected.

One had to wonder how Gianna's death came to light.