Tearha: The Number 139

Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Rat

The Watcher looked on from afar as arrowheads glinted and muzzle flashed off the walls of Everwind. Projectiles disappeared before the light of the day while the Titan Rangers closed in from behind. Splotches of dust blotched off the golems that approached the walls with the same effect as a speck of dust hitting a person. He watched as a lone pair of riders circled the Hulvarks at full speed, moving between the golems and the wall, likely Luce in an impassioned plea to Everwind for a ceasefire so as to allow them to handle the situation.

"She's got this," Miguel said to him from his side.

"I know," The Watcher replied. "But..."

"You want me to stay here? Just in case Light comes out for a personal visit?"

"Am I that annoying when I do smart mind reading things?"

Miguel shrugged. "No idea. I don't know you well enough yet."

The Watcher patted the hume in the back wordlessly. He left the Enhancer to watch over the Titan Rangers from the edge of the forest. Explosions echoed from across the landscape as they rangers engaged their targets

He joined his two elven companions at the northern edge. Nadier was taking a check of his utility belt while Adelaide sharpened an arrow. They turned as he walked over and Nadier asked, "Are you ready?"

"Let's go."

Adelaide chimed, "Where to?" She sheathed her arrow back into its quiver.

Nadier pointed across the field to a third of a way from the edge of the eastern wall. "There's a gated sewage outlet in that general area."

They watched as Adelaide did a quick mental calculation before she said, "It's quite far. It's going to take me at least two teleports to reach." She glanced to the two men with her with a smile of joking disgust. "Especially since I'm carrying you two dead weights."

The Watcher confidently placed a hand on her right shoulder. "I have full faith in your ability."

Nadier set his on her right. He added, "Try to aim for somewhere we can hide from The Tower."

She looked to the dark elf in annoyance, her expression universal in teenagers for not wanting people to tell them what to do. Turning back to the plains, she scanned the landscape. Her head stopped at a gentle slope slightly left of the line to their destination. When the reappeared, they would be visible for just a moment, but even with the angled hiding spot, there was a chance The Tower would spot them. They could only hope that the distraction by the Titan Rangers bought them the opening. With a nod of her head, they teleported across the plains, reappearing right before a mount just tall enough to barely block out the line of sight to half of The Tower.

Nadier quickly wrapped his arm under Adelaide's shoulder, gently lowering the girl onto the ground as she wobbled from the stress of long distance teleportation.

"I'm fine," she waved him away. "Just give me a minute."

The Watcher took a prone position and crawled his way to the side of the slope, careful not to give away his location to The Tower. Peeking over the mount, he watched as the Titan Rangers, now off their horses, encircle the two golems. Earth spikes shot out of the ground to the right underside of the nearest golem as explosions from fireballs and grenades flashed at the opposite feet. Iron chains sparkled as they were fired from launchers, snaking through and over the air, strapping across the golems. Another earth spike shot out from the front, and the Hulvark stopped it its tracks against the dirt pillar. Slowly, near a passing minute of yank, pull, and push, the first golem fell over to its sides, smashing up a cloud of dust.