Cassandra hurries along with him, her small cold hand clutching his.
There are footsteps spreading all through the upper corridors of the castle by now: marching, limping, charging, frantically fleeing. They pass two corpses, both house servants, before they run smack into the group of soldiers still searching for the missing de Rolo child.
There are three ways that encounter ends: the one where Phil is cut down, the one where they're both taken alive, and the one where he manages to dodge around them long enough to crash through a window with Cassandra in his arms.
It takes him several tries to find the angle that gets them out into the air without injuring his wings too badly to carry them.
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There are footsteps spreading all through the upper corridors of the castle by now: marching, limping, charging, frantically fleeing. They pass two corpses, both house servants, before they run smack into the group of soldiers still searching for the missing de Rolo child.
There are three ways that encounter ends: the one where Phil is cut down, the one where they're both taken alive, and the one where he manages to dodge around them long enough to crash through a window with Cassandra in his arms.
It takes him several tries to find the angle that gets them out into the air without injuring his wings too badly to carry them.