Cassie had called out to Mordret.
She was calling out to others, as well.
In the spacious corridors of Mirage Castle, a fierce battle was only growing more perilous as more and more of its defenders poured inside from the outer walls. Effie and the other prisoners of the Dreamspawn, whom she had freed, were steadily carving a path toward the throne room, where the Gateway was located.
There were close to a hundred of them. Most were seasoned warriors and veterans of the Nightmare Spell... but they were also all in a sorry state, having endured weeks or even months of physical and mental torture. It almost seemed as if it was pure willpower that moved their exhausted bodies instead of physical effort, and that as soon as their willpower reached its limit, they would fall.
They were only able to keep fighting because Saint Athena, Raised by Wolves, led them finto battle.
