That order emptied the yard, and it filled the passage.
Eighty soldiers packed themselves into a stone corridor eight abreast, which was exactly the right decision for holding the passage and exactly the wrong one for what was standing at the other end of it.
James looked at the nearest body and then at Finn and Ronan, who were four meters from it.
"Ronan, back. Take him with you."
Ronan did not ask. He got his shield across the front of both of them and walked backward up the corridor with Finn swearing behind him, and when they had covered nine meters James's two remaining skeletons hooked their arms under the corpse and dragged it forward into the middle of the packed line.
A soldier in the second rank worked it out and shouted.
It was late.
[CORPSE EXPLOSION — MANA COST: 150]
[MANA: 1,660 → 1,510]
The corridor turned into a bell.
