After the river, Almond stopped holding back his hand.
The full roster came out of the Spirit Kodoku pocket at the border of the second region, and for the first time since he had walked through the door, the world in front of him looked like the outnumbered one.
Alfred stepped out first, as he always did, rapier resting easy at his side, eyes already reading the terrain. Sylvia followed with her vines curling out across the grass, tasting the soil of a world that had never grown anything for anyone.
Benedict arrived with the ground complaining under his fortress plates, bastion sigils turning slow above his shoulders. Galvaren dropped out of the sky laughing, storm wings trailing thunder, and Meliora appeared beside him without a sound, her transmutation cube already rotating between her fingers.
