The Queen of Ash and Flame

Chapter Forty Eight

"Here you are," Calvin said. He had warmed up to me a lot more.

"Get regular posts outside mine and Lucian's room, and tell me when those boys fuck with you," I smiled.

"Of course and thank you," he smiled once more before turning around and walking down the hall we had just come from.

"If he flirts with you I'm ripping his fucking head off and shoving it up his ass," I heard Lucian growl from beside me.

"Don't worry," I smirked and turned to him. "I only have eyes for you."

Be grinned and brought me into a tight embrace.

I pulled away and opened the door, ten people stared at us. The two royals, Arthur, and five other people in the room. All around a large circular table.

Two other chairs were left vacant, I nodded warmly and sat down. Lucian sliding into a chair next to me.

"Hello Natallia," the cool calm voice of the king said. "And Lucian."

I nodded in their direction.

"Let's introduce, then get into business," the king said.

No one said a word for a moment, waiting for someone to start. A chair scrapped against the floor.

"Well if no one is going to speak, I'll go," a tall strong woman stood up. She had short black hair with a white streak going through it. She looked at me and smiled.

"I'm Charlotte," she was dressed in tight black combat wear, and looked the youngest out of all the warlords here. "I'm the leader of the avian legion."

And that's when I noticed the large white wings that were carefully tucked behind her back. The feathers looked soft and made of pure clouds.

"I'm also one of the best fighters," she winked at the rest of the room. Some of the other warlords chuckled and others scowled at her. "It's going to be a pleasure working with you."

She sat back down and the person next to her stood up.

He looked around fifty, but probably hundreds of years old. "My name is Mason, I'm the leader of the archers."

"I'm Hecotr, general of the land army."

"Elenor, head of the potion makers and distributors."

"Hello my name is Felix and I'm the captain of the navy."

"Well now that we're all introduced, we can start on the layout of the Mortem war camp and castle then we work on a battle plan.

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I pointed to a forest map, "There, that's where the start of the war camp starts on the east." I dragged my finger across the paper to the other side of the green colour map. "And this is the other end of the war camp in the west. There's war camps surrounding the whole city and castle."

The other war lords also stood with me, hands on the table and puzzled over the paper.

"Are there sky legions or sky portectetions?" Charlotte asked me.

I shook my head. "No none that I know of." I turned to Lucian and looked at him with questioning eyes.

"No, no avian fleets and no spells in the sky. That's the one thing that Heidi has never done."

"So because we can't enter through the camp, we'd probably be crushed by their creatures and army. But we can come in through the sky and work from the inside out." Charlotte said, eyebrows knitted together.