Built for defense

I drew the whistle I used to coordinate the movements of my lord’s Guard and started piping on it as hard as I could. It would be useless to alert any of the humans, since their ears were just too stupid to hear it, but any of my people would, and would come flying.
The Castle had been built for defense from the ground up. There were no staircases that stretched longer than a single floor. Invaders would have to take one staircase, fight their way the length of the Castle to the next, and so on. I shot down darkened corridors and up close-fit spiral staircases to the passage to the roof—and found it occupied by the enemy.


Heroic Hearts, Little Things, Page 7