Illusions 4

Suddenly, a ring of swords surrounded Vorel. Selesnya soldiers had appeared, encircling the Simic delegation. Even the crab creature had a team of stern-looking Selesnya guards around it.

“Release her,” said one of the soldiers.

Vorel looked down the line of one of the blades, down to the prone form of Emmara. His head shook in a moment of reevaluation. “Let us go,” he said, and the crab-beast disengaged.

Emmara took a breath.

The Selesnya soldiers didn’t touch Vorel or his entourage. They backed away and let the Simic delegation through. Vorel climbed onto the crab-thing’s back and they rode off through Selesnya territory toward the next gate.

When they had gone, Jace exhaled. Emmara stood on her feet and looked around. “Thank you,” she said to the soldiers around her. “That meant a lot to me.”

“Emmara, I’m sorry,” said Jace.

“For what?”

Jace dropped his spell, and the Selesnya soldiers dissolved, unraveling into threads of azure light, and disappeared.

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Dragon's Maze: The Secretist Part 3, Chapter 6