Her cry echoed across the square, carrying all the anguish of a woman watching her world burn. The name seemed to hang in the air like a prayer, a final appeal to the one person who might have the power to stop this madness.
A plea for the one she truly believed in.
The silence that followed was deafening.
Even the dying seemed to hold their breath, waiting for some sign that her desperate plea had been heard.
Then the sky exploded.
A beast's roar shook the very foundations of the city as she dove from the clouds like a bronze thunderbolt. Her wings cast shadows across the square as she pulled up from her dive, landing with earth-shaking force directly in the center of the fountain.
Water sprayed in all directions as her talons crushed the stone, and her massive presence suddenly dominated the scene.
Eude and his men were swept away from the impact. The people around the fountain were pushed back, even Cleora and her children too.
