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Selena hacked the dead man with her cleaver. The spirit was young,
cloaked in hospital rags, and vicious. Blue flames poured from the
edges Selena’s weapon and curled around the spirit’s snarling body. His
eyes glazed over into blank nothing. Then I snapped my lash.
My lash whipped forward and snagged the outstretched arm of another
spirit reaching for Selena’s neck. Gnarled hands betraying the spirit’s own
mind, her perception of herself as she crossed to Riven an old woman. Also
wearing a hospital gown. As were all the spirits in the courtyard, near the
large palace where Alec and I had fought a ghoul not too many nights ago.
“Behind,” I said, and Selena whirled, going low with her cleaver while I
held the spirit back. Selena made contact and the spirit howled her rage
before the pale fire burned it away.
“You can’t forget that,” I said. “Your back is always vulnerable.”
“Not when you’re around,” Selena said, giving me a quick smile. Not
much time for talking. More spirits climbed out of the breach, a glowing pit
on the flagstones in front of us that, like a pond reflecting the sky, showed a
hospital ward on the other side.
A containment unit housing so many dying from the disease. They
called it the flu, and it was wrecking the world. It would wreck this one too
if we didn’t close the breaches fast enough. To my right, a pair of spirits
worked together to annihilate their brethren.
Graham, looking like an out-sized carnival barker and sporting a spiked
hammer, swept raging spirits aside with long swings. That gave space for
Katherine to work, her hooked batons carving up and propelling her from
one spirit to the next, wrapping each one in blue flame as she moved.
“It’s almost ready,” Anna said from my left. She held a tablet with a
blue sapphire in the middle. A device centuries older than I was, a product
of unknown creation that had been passed from guide to guide and now
found itself in the hands of a former sneak.
“On it,” I said, grabbing my large crossbow from its holster on my back.
With Selena providing cover, I clicked the lever on the left side of the stock
to load up bolts tinged with blue, and then turned the right crank. Slotted
one, aimed, and shot a spirit just as it turned toward us, its eyes awash with
the same blue glow as our calming fire. The bolt hit the spirit in the chest
and fire burst out, matching its eyes. But when the fire finished crawling
over its body, the spirit’s eyes were plain, blank. Ready for the Cycle.
Fired again, and a third time. Each bolt wrangled a spirit with blue fire.
Each one bought us a bit of time. Brought us one step closer.
“It’s ready,” Anna said. “I’m going for it.”
I pushed the lever on the crossbow, switching to the normal, hard-hitting
metal bolts.
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