Tavian's hands curled into fists on the broken amber dome.
The faces on his body had stopped screaming. Every one of them was staring at Lilith now, and so was he.
"You…" he growled.
He started to rise.
Lilith didn't wait for him to finish.
She raised one finger, and a single raindrop fell onto its tip. It didn't splash. It simply rested there, round and trembling, as though it had been waiting for her.
Then she flicked it.
BOOOOOOOM!
The raindrop struck Tavian in the center of his forehead, and he was gone.
He tore across the sky above Vhal-Sar like a falling star, over the terraces, over the canals, and over the ships in the harbor. A long line of rain was blown apart in his wake.
BOOOOOOOOOM!
He crashed into The Wall from the inside.
Golden runes flared one behind another across the southern curve, and the entire barrier rang like a struck bell. Seawater exploded upward on the other side, and for a moment, the whole harbor shook.
Simon stared with his mouth wide open.
