If anyone wants to start a meth habit, I’ll be your enabler.”
“You holding?” a woman behind me whispered fearfully. XXNX We shot through the water like a torpedo, though I hardly noticed the ride. Three-hundred yards away, the Lowland marines were marshalling on the cleared beachhead from hundreds of watercrafts, and were beginning their slow ascent toward the city. The towering orcs at my sides held my shoulders square, and the tonnage of beasts behind me propelled me forward. All the intellectual and magical might of the Lowland academy was here, and the invasion had been defeated by mistiming and stupidity. I could only stare down. The only weapon they’d known were hammers, and their only enemies had been nails and anvils. All the while, the mages remained on the boats, watching their comrades die by the hundreds, hiding behind their arcane shields, not daring
