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Strangely, the Nameless had vanished, as well, as if once inside the wall the shimmer was lost, even though it should have towered above it.
"What if we go in the back and get Maeve out?" Galen said into the heavy silence.
We all looked at him.
"We can't fight the Nameless, but we might be able to do that."
Lucy slapped her forehead. "Dumb. Really dumb, we should have evacuated Ms. Reed before this."
"It will follow her," I said. "Unless you can get a helicopter in here, we won't be able to get her away fast enough."
Lucy seemed to think about that for a moment. "I might be able to swing it. The Reeds have a lot of clout in this town."
"Do it, if you can," I said.
"In the meantime give us a few men and let us go in the back," Galen said.
"I'm going with you," I said.
He shook his head, looking so serious. "No, Merry, you're not."
"Yes, Galen, I am. I was raised to know that a leader never asks of her people what she isn't willing to do herself."
"Your father was a good man … but you're mortal, Merry. The rest of us aren't."
"The police are, all of them, and they're still here."
He shook his head. "No."
We argued, but in the end I got my way because all the men that could have argued me down were inside the broken wall facing off against the thing we'd come to destroy.