Theandra quickened her pace and within an hour was standing within sight of the walls of Ylysis. The outer curtain of the massive fortress teemed with movement. She uttered another brief incantation. She conjured up an opaque globe of shimmering spheres. The colors appeared in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The different colors flashed in a repeating pattern every heartbeat. The brilliance of the colors blinded anything in the immediate vicinity of the sphere which surrounded her. The sphere was ten paces in diameter; she could move about within the sphere and could command it to move forward. She cast another more detailed spell that required her to crush a small clay shield in her left hand as she conjured. A large translucent shield appeared and moved two paces in front of her. She began to move forward.
The guards upon the wall-walk surrounding Ylysis witnessed the formation of the Shimmering Spheres. The colors were beautiful but unnerving at the same time. The general appearance was that of a rainbow rolling toward the castle. She stopped a few hundred paces from the castle doors. There was loud recoil from the enceite, the quadrangle of Ylysis, and a huge flaming projectile raced toward her. The catapults were firing rocks molten by Magick.
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