Drow Royalty by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-06-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Cheyenne leaped away from a branching crack splitting off from the main fissure. Her activator pulled up a huge, blinking yellow arrow. Right around the corner. That’s where we can put it back.

A shrill scream came from her right, and she skidded to a stop to see a group of magicals running out of an alley toward her, their eyes wide with terror. One of the buildings behind them started to sink, crumbling in on itself as the ground buckled beneath it. Cheyenne scanned the stats the activator gave her and nodded. I can make it.

“Stop!” L’zar grabbed her wrist again and jerked her back.

Cheyenne whirled and slammed her fist into his face, powering it with a sphere of crackling black energy balled in her hand. L’zar grunted and staggered backward, blinking against the daze as she shook out her hand. “Either help me or get the fuck out of here, but don’t try to stop me again.”

“Wait!”

She darted toward the slowly collapsing alley where the screaming magicals still spilled out of the space between buildings. “Over here!” She waved them toward her, and the frightened O’gúleesh headed her way without a second thought. “How many more are in there?”

“I don’t know.” The troll she asked barreled past her as he answered, looking over his shoulder.

The buildings crashed against another, spewing sparks and shrieks as metal ripped into metal. Cheyenne ran toward the collapsing alley and threw up a shield of dark, shimmering drow light. The force of the top half of the building toppling onto her shield made her cry out in an effort to keep it up. Marching closer, she raised her hands above her head and sank to her knees when more of the building toppled onto her broad shield. A little heavier than that construction site. No problem.

O’gúleesh raced past her, dragging each other along. A wide-eyed goblin dropped his tankard on the ground, and Cheyenne snarled at him when he stopped to pick it up. “Go!”

He jumped and scurried around her. With a deep breath, Cheyenne slipped into drow speed and released the shield. As soon as she got to her feet, L’zar barreled into her, and they both went flying away from the collapsing building and the spray of unleashed magic spewing through the closing alley faster than either drow could move.

Grunting, Cheyenne rolled across the cracked metal and pushed herself to her feet.

“Are you okay?” L’zar scanned her as he approached.

“So you decided to help. I’m fine.”

“We need to go.”

“Not yet.” She spun and scanned the avenue for the source of the bright yellow arrow in her vision. “I can turn all this off. Probably temporarily, but it’s something.”

“Cheyenne, I can’t risk it.”

“You don’t get to decide for me!” She stalked toward the yellow arrow blinking in her vision, ignoring his growl of disapproval.

“You’re making this incredibly difficult.”

“No, that would be you.”

The ground bucked beneath them again, but she managed to keep her balance this time. When she finally reached the blinking

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