Cara's sensitive nose soon told her that she was not far from her young charge.
The barrier she had erected wasn't a full dome, as it should have been, but she didn't expect someone to have the nerve to actually blow up the Royal Palace during an attack.
So, when the collapse occurred, she only had a barrier between them and the room.
However, Karl kept an Eternal Lightning barrier over Rue at all times, just in case of emergency. A precaution that was paying dividends now.
Cara put [Disintegrate] on her claws as she transformed, and began digging through the rubble in the direction that her senses said that she would find Rue. It had to be this way, she could still smell Karl's magic, and that was impossible to miss.
Rue was only a few metres away from her, Cara realized.
The floor had collapsed, which had dropped Rue and Mildred into the room beneath them, while the building collapsed.
