"It's… it's really over," I whispered.
My knees gave out. I collapsed into the dirt as the adrenaline drained from my body so suddenly it felt like my blood had turned to lead.
"It's over now," Tobias said at last. He released a long, shuddering breath, the weight of the day finally lifting as the final traces of Bagu vanished into the woodsteel. Behind him, Greyjoy and the others looked as though they had aged ten years in a single afternoon.
"Brother!"
Morad burst from cover, forgetting every instruction to stay hidden as he came toward us. No one stopped him. No one even cared. We were too exhausted to focus on anything else.
