After this, we’d probably need to sweep the entire kingdom to make sure no one was left with a scrambled brain, but right now I had the immediate area covered.
“I, Kane Vayne, give up my crown to you—” he stopped mid-sentence.
That pause was all the signal I needed.
“Now!” Dash yelled.
I tugged at all of the bright, shiny tendrils in my mind, connecting with every single head fuzzy with Kellan’s magic. My power ripped through their mental barriers, dissolving the artificial control and setting their minds free.
I opened my eyes just in time to see several guards make surprised noises and fall to their knees, clutching their heads as their consciousness returned. The ones who’d been fighting the hardest against the control looked the most disoriented, blinking rapidly as they tried to
