Capturing the peninsula with dragons wouldn’t mean much if they brought the Cull down on themselves. He loved Taifa, the Goddess knew he did, but she was playing a suicidal game. Still, he couldn’t pretend he wasn’t angry with her. He couldn’t hold the ground he’d taken, but he’d given her time. More than that, Tsiory had taken the beach, pushed into the tree line, and marched the bulk of his army deeper into the peninsula. The last few days had been filled with fighting, but his soldiers had beaten back the natives. Losing against the savages would mean the end of his people, and that Tsiory could not permit. Most of the ships had been scavenged for resources, broken to pieces, so the Omehi could survive. The last of the twenty-five hundred ships had arrived, and every woman, man, and child who was left of the Chosen was now on this hostile land. She wanted him to hold the beach and push into the territory beyond it, and that was what he was doing. He told himself he had to be here, where the fighting was thickest. He didn’t want to think he was punishing her. It’d been three days since he’d last gone to the ships to see Taifa. He needed rest and was unlikely to get it.
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