The Traitor Queen

Aren gathers everyone who can fight into the boats, and they sail for Eranahl, hoping to make it before all the innocents barricaded inside are slaughtered by Silas’s men.

Lara takes a stimulant from Nana’s supply and runs to Snake Island, where she hopes their former boats are still tethered. She jumps into the water from the cliff and swims to the nearest boat.

Aren’s forces find Eranahl surrounded by a hundred of Silas’s ships. Though he’s successfully managed to smash the shipbreaker weapons that formerly kept his forces back, it wasn’t without cost. His forces have begun climbing the cliffs with grappling hooks. They gain entrance through a cave guarded by Eranahl’s soldiers, and the portcullis drops closed behind them. Inside, Ahnna informs Aren that their forces are low on arrows and won’t be able to hold Silas’s forces off for much longer. In the distance, they notice a storm brewing on the horizon. Aren begins to develop a strategy to buy them time until the storm hits. He orders Ahnna to leave him two boats and their crews but take everyone else to defend the cliffs.