The Wards were down.
I stared at the last one in shock.
We hadn’t done this.
“What does this mean?" I wheezed, but the boy grabbed my arm, pulling me away as hard as he could. He had a surprising amount of strength, and I nearly tripped trying to follow him. The destroyed Ward mocked me as the kid tugged me along.
“It doesn’t matter!” The boy seethed. “It’s down, that’s all that counts! Now we just need to make sure the Hybrid and other ones are down too. Your guy’s a Fallen, we wanna make sure he can-” His words were cut off by a wall of flame that engulfed us both. I barely had time to grab him and curl my body around him, crouching over him to cover as much of his small frame as I could. The air around us suddenly became very thin, and I could hear the boy gasp in a breath. I tried
