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Commander, but they’re due east, about a mile
out,” came the reply.
    “Due east…” Helion repeated grimly.
    “Yes, Commander, the child and the woman are sitting between
us and the Scourge. And the fiends are moving fast in our direction.”
    In other words, the Scourge would soon overtake the females
and lady protect them if they were found. What the Scourge did to women was an
abomination and what they did to children…
    “Keepers, to arms! Waste no time, we lightstep to the
females now. Find them and protect them with your lives. Kill every Scourge you
see but save those innocents.”
    Without hesitation Helion lightstepped due east, confident
his men would be at his back but not willing to wait for them. He had enemies
to slaughter and females to save. He heard the disgusting calling card of the
Scourge long before he saw them and increased his speed, eager to engage them.
The ugly creatures were swarming a large, austere building, no doubt looking
for the two females. Scourge were like hounds—they could scent fear and smell
victims.
    The escalation in their sounds told Helion they had found
their victims and were going in for the kill. He lightstepped right up to the
front of the building and felt his men arrive with him. A herd of Scourge saw
them arrive and screamed their defiance. Helion responded with a cruel smile.
    “Kill them all,” he ordered, extending his long sword. “Mithrain,
lead me to the females.”
    Following Mithrain closely, Helion and his men cut a bloody
swath through the massing Scourge. Helion’s sword sliced through body after
body, blood and entrails flying and heads rolling. His men were just as
merciless, dismembering Scourge left and right, severing arms and legs and
heads with cold ruthlessness. Mithrain held a steady pace, cutting through the
Scourge with lightning-fast shots from his bow, unerringly striking vitals as
he raced through the doors and down the crowded halls of the building, the two
fighting their way to the corridor that led to the women.
    “Commander, at least forty Scourge are massed outside the
room with the females inside. They’re breaking through the door!”
    Helion roared ferociously, redoubling his efforts to cut
down every Scourge scum in the hall before they could harm the women. Mithrain and
the rest of the guard stepped up their attacks as well, taking down enemy after
enemy. They strained to reach the door, tearing through the Scourge with brutal
efficiency to the end of the hall just in time to see the door to the room
hiding the females give way completely. Helion’s rage escalated as he saw the
door shatter inward under the Scourge assault. Seeing the lust on the faces of
his enemies inched that rage even higher.
    “No mercy!” he roared, lightstepping exactly into the middle
of the Scourge horde as they raced into the room for the kill. He sliced
savagely through fiend after fiend, their blood splashing like rain over him and
his men. It soaked his hair and entrails slimed his armor, dulling its gleam.
His men jumped in and got their share, not stopping until every Scourge in the
hall and inside the room was slaughtered like cattle. Only then did the red
haze of berserker rage fall from him and let him take stock of the situation.
    The relief he felt when he saw the females unharmed, still
crouched on the ground but untouched, surprised him. He didn’t expect to feel
so strongly about the well-being of these humans. He respected their protected
status as woman and infant but this feeling went beyond that. Seeing the little
human female, cowering but unmarked and still breathing, sent a wave of elation
rolling through his body. He and his men had made it. Made it by the skin of
their teeth but they’d managed to save two lives.
    He waited a moment for the female to acknowledge him and his
men, but she did not. She stayed where she was, clutching her offspring in a
tight, desperate grip, her head down as though she still awaited a death