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helped to plan their routes meticulously, making sure that each group had back up and sending them out into the areas of the city that the Mortuorum would least likely be frequenting. Still, he had failed to keep them safe. Kelton held himself responsible.
    There were so many things that he had to deal with now that he wasn’t sure where to start. The smart thing would be to take on the biggest and most immediate problems and shelve the rest until he had the time to deal with them properly. But, everything seemed to demand his attention and his head was swirling with all that he had to do.
    Thankfully, they had Aisline back more or less in one piece. The rescue mission had been a success, getting back their girl and no fatalities on their side. The injuries she had sustained would heal relatively quickly, with the help of the medical staff at the academy. Physically, she would be fighting fit again in no time.
    That wasn’t their only concern, though. Kelton and Kayleigh had briefly spoken about the emotional scars that the young girl would bear. Whether she would actually want to go back into the training programme was an entirely different question. No one else would or could tell her what she needed to do to get through this. All they could do was be there for her whatever she decided.
    Kelton wouldn’t put pressure on her either way. Sure, he had been nervous about allowing a female into their ranks, but she had more than proved her worth and strength. She was an excellent warrior and even if she didn’t have the muscle mass that the rest of the male trainees had, she had brought her own kind of special something that kept her right up there with the rest of the guys. If she chose to continue in her fight against the Mortuorum, then they would all be there to support her decision. It wouldn’t be easy, fighting against the warrior mark had proved to be all but impossible in the past, but if she couldn’t face going back out into the field after what she’d been through, then he would do all he could to help her.
    There were some other casualties from their mission to raid the Mortuorum nest when they went out to retrieve Aisline, but thankfully, there had been no deaths on their side. The same couldn’t be said of the bastards that had taken her. Kelton and the rest of the warriors had taken out as many of the vile creatures that had been on that site as possible. It had felt good to exact a little revenge at the time. Shame it was never enough.
    Kelton felt like banging his head against the wall. The phone in his private office was constantly ringing off the hook, so much so that he had to recruit a couple of the senior trainees to come in and field the calls for him. There were plenty of worried parents calling in to question the safety of their children, which was the last thing he needed to deal with right now. He had no idea how the word had got out about what went down, but it obviously had and it was making his life all the more harder. The families of the injured warriors, including Aisline and Jackson, had already been informed. Frankly, Kelton didn’t have the time to molly-coddle the parents of the other students that hadn’t even been affected. The boys were all here to train. It wasn’t a profession that was without its dangers and the parents knew what their children were letting themselves in for. Sure, they all should have been completely safe during their training period, but still…
    The council were also trying to contact him non-stop. Kelton had so far flatly refused to speak to them after his initial contact. He had told them all that they needed to know and he didn’t have the time or the inclination to go over and over it with them. He would forward his report as soon as he could via email, but they clearly weren’t satisfied with that. It wasn’t like any of them were just calling up for a friendly chat, and Kelton didn’t have the time to waste on them. They were the ones that had