A pair of archers are cut off from their unit in a skirmish, but although their fates do not decide the outcome of the war, one life means all the difference for another.
There are moments in our lives when we don't have time to wonder if we can do something. We have to get it right the first time around, or suffer for it.
A wave of spells for light joined by laughter immediately burst from the three dozen students in the darkness, casting up faerie light to illuminate the darkness with silver. It was what it illuminated that killed their laughter.