Warrior Innocent by Wendy Knight

Author:Wendy Knight [Knight, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Reads
Published: 2017-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

12

"Someone's coming," Scout murmured. She was bent over Iros's map, trying to calculate how many unicorns they'd lost in the last battle, and how many still had no riders.

The numbers weren't good.

She hadn't even realized she'd spoken until Trey stood up and went to the window. "Nisha."

Iros looked up. Aella was gone doing recon work, so it was just the three of them burning the midnight oil.

"Hi." Nisha came in hesitantly, but Trey and Iros both smiled warmly. Hurriedly, she handed something to Scout. "I—I used to love to design. On the computer. But there's no computer, so I made this for you. To say thank you."

Trey peered over Scout's shoulder. The card was beautiful, made with all the different colors of Paradesos. Unicorns drawn in charcoal, their riders fierce on their backs. Awaiting orders but ready to ride. Scout's jaw dropped, and she looked up at Nisha. "You made this?"

Nisha nodded, smiling.

"Wow. It's incredible. You have a talent, Nisha," Trey said.

"That's not all. I had—I had an idea. You asked for battle ideas today? I had one."

Scout grinned at Iros. "See? I told you."

"I was just thinking—instead of coming at them from the front, we should split up. May I?" She motioned toward the map below them with the flags and figurines. At Iros's nod, she knelt next to it. "These are the Irwarros. We have the riderless unicorns attack from the front, like this." She moved the riderless figurine forward. "We then split the rest of our troops into smaller groups. Twenty or so will go this way and attack from the side, the others from this side and from the middle, but below. I've noticed the soul stealers always stay fairly high in the sky unless they're actively stealing the souls. We get below them and come up this way—" she moved more figurines "—there will be fewer that can escape with souls back to Aptavaras."

Scout squealed. "Just like the Revolutionary War! Except with flying and magic!"

Trey was reminded of Scout, pre-war. Driven would have been an understatement. The girl refused to fail, and learning had been her escape. She didn't love school—in fact, he was pretty sure she was miserable there—but she threw everything she had into every lesson, every homework assignment. Science had been her favorite, but history had taken a close second.

Iros clapped Nisha on the shoulder. "That's brilliant Nisha. Scout, Trey, incorporate that into your training. We'll test it as soon as we're ready."

Nisha blushed with pride and stood. "That—that's all I have."

"It is more than enough." Scout smiled proudly at her. "Thank you, Nisha."

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