Chapter 461: A Saviour Who Was Supposed To Be In The Lower Fields
Lyria's POV
Suddenly, someone else joined me.
Duke Thorncrest.
He was there in an instant, his hands closing about the girl, lifting her from my grasp with a strength that seemed almost effortless. The child's weight left my arms, and for a moment I felt strangely empty, as though I had been holding something far more precious than I had realised.
Then rough hands dragged me back, pulling me away from the edge, and away from the hole that seemed determined to swallow everything above it.
Duke Thorncrest followed at once, carrying the girl and running towards us, towards what safer ground remained.
I watched as the crack widened behind him, as though pursuing us with a will of its own. The very spot where I had been kneeling but seconds before gave way entirely, collapsing into the darkness below, and the field beneath it followed, sinking into the earth with a terrible groan.
