The Dark Knight

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Title: The Dark Knight

Author: Aalia

The flames poured towards him, a seething, rolling mass of carnage rivaling the tides of two full moons. Uzeraan knew his home couldn't withstand the destruction consuming Haven for long. His shields were hasty, his power draining. It was a miracle he'd managed to last this long - darkness raged against the edges of his vision as his magic ebbed away.

"Master!" the scream came against the crash of burning timbers. His maid, Clarissa, appeared out of the corner of his eye running from the southwest room; he knew he didn't have enough strength to teleport her out and still maintain the protections he was barely clinging to.

An unearthly howl rose over the chaos, and, turning, he saw her fall before the great daemon once bound in his castle.

A wordless cry sprang from his lips. He had summoned everything he had towards protecting themselves from the outside, from the destruction of Haven and his home that had flared so suddenly from the earth below. He had forgotten the bindings on the dormant threat, a servant of Semidar herself, and now death lay inside as well as out.

Words of Power erupted into the air and suddenly the shields dropped. He had only moments, he knew, but the flames bent, they bent! They twisted to his desperate will, a wrath born of pain and fury and death thundering through his veins. The vortex tore into the daemon, and then they were both elsewhere...