Boreal and John Grey Season 1 by Thoma Chrystalla

Author:Thoma, Chrystalla [Thoma, Chrystalla]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

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Ella had hoped Finn would hang back — after all, for whatever reason the Shades seemed to want him — but of course he didn’t. He fought by her side moving down the HQ main corridor, Dave at their back. Terrified people scurried about, trying to keep out of the way, hiding inside the offices, under desks and behind chairs.

“No warning,” Dave grumbled.

“Told you,” Ella hissed as she spun to kick a goblin solidly in the middle, then stepped in to bury her knife in its gut. Or whatever it was it had. The goblin shrieked and puffed out of existence.

Finn grunted as he stabbed into a rock troll and dropped to one knee to avoid the fist of another. Ella drew a shuriken from her belt — a girl could never carry too many weapons — and threw it at the creature. It struck the troll in the forehead, sending it backward, and it wavered and fizzled out.

“We have wards lining the whole HQ, dammit,” Dave muttered right behind her and there was another shriek. She turned as another goblin faded back to the Grey.

“Not working. Things are changing.”

A woman — one of the accountants, Ella thought distantly — made a run for the elevators. A six-foot troll intercepted her and smashed her against the wall. The woman slid down and sprawled. Dead?

No time to find out. Finn shoved Dave and stepped in front of him, slashing a Shade in an upward thrust, then spun and threw his knife into another. Dave gaped for a moment before schooling his expression back to a scowl and turning to tackle another troll.

Advance, slash, retreat, check over shoulder, duck, thrust, fall back. A familiar dance, and Ella lost herself in it.

Then she heard Finn cursing; at least it sounded like it. Drawing another shuriken she whirled to find him held in a troll’s meaty fist, feet dangling. Deja vu. An alley. Finn kicking at a troll’s legs, trying to break free.

And again Finn was in the way of her bullets. No clear target. Dammit.

She drew back her hand and threw the shuriken in an arch; it grazed the creature’s arm and it stumbled back, but didn’t let go of Finn. Her gun. She pulled it free of its holster and aimed, but damn, target still not clear. Finn kicked and slashed with his knife but couldn’t get a good hit in.

“Ella!” Dave shouted and pushed her sideways, his knife gleaming as it arced over her head, hitting something right behind her. The air sizzled. Two goblins closed in and she raised her other hand with the knife, backpedaling.

Two shots rang, one after the other, felling the goblins. Not iron bullets, because they didn’t vanish, but Ella stepped over them and finished them off, vaporizing them.

Who had shot them? She looked up and frowned. “Sarah?”

Simon’s girlfriend — stiletto heels, mini skirt and all — held the gun in both hands, looking grim.

Ella never thought she’d be so glad to see her. Then the air shimmered behind the troll holding Finn off the floor.

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