Chapter 103: The Unyielding Current
The decision to go to the Iron Citadel was a thunderclap that silenced even the most heated arguments in the war council. Grynn saw it as a suicide mission, a pointless surrender. Nabil saw it as a dangerous but necessary pilgrimage to the heart of the opposition. Ronan saw it only in terms of tactical impossibility—extracting his Alpha and Luna from the most fortified human city on the continent.
Only Kael, his eyes locked with Lyra's, saw the brutal symmetry of it. The Accord had been broadcast to the world. To fight its enemy from the Mountain was to be a voice in the wilderness. To confront it in the enemy's own citadel was to become an undeniable fact.
