Chapter 27

• Chapter 27: A Tangled Alliance
• **Aria’s POV**
• A symphony of clashing steel, guttural roars, and the pungent smell of burning dirt filled the battlefield, which was a scene of mayhem. I gripped the hilt of my twin daggers tighter, looking over the chaos for Darius or Killian. The strategy had been simple: stop the opposing troops before they could get beyond the village's defenses. However, simple ideas seldom ever made it beyond the first encounter with chaos.