"I'm out too." The Sleipnir shook his head. "We've both seen Tyris beating Ileza to a pulp and I was there when she banished Roghar from Garlen. Back then I was under her tutelage, learning how to handle my Guardian powers when it happened."
"And?" Ashfor asked with curiosity.
"And it wasn't a fight. It was a massacre." Iorka shuddered at the memory. "If not for the Fringe enveloping them, each of Tyris' fists would have shattered mountains and leveled cities. If Ileza is right, the next time I see those fists they will be aimed at us so no thanks."
***
Blood Desert, at the same time.
While Lith and the others collected the Yggdrasill's fragments in Verendi without encountering any resistance, Scarlett the Sekhmet performed the final test of her apprenticeship under Salaark.
Or rather, under Blood Magus Ilyum Balkor.