Fire (Four Worlds Book 2) by Helen Scott

Author:Helen Scott [Scott, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

14

Tessa

The silver blood rushed over my hands like a tap suddenly being turned on. The creature reared back and roared. It was furious and in pain, and the sheer volume of the sound shook my brain around inside my skull, as well as the walls of the cave. Even through my blurry vision I saw the dust and rocks falling from the ceiling that was still so far above us.

Blood was seeping under my hands, loosening my grip on the daggers. In a last-ditch effort, I released the whip from around my chest and launched, wrapping it around the thing's neck. The thick woven leather slid against the icy, rocky hide of the creature, and I was barely able to catch it as I whipped the end toward my free hand, passing it in front of the creature's neck.

Griff and Finn had evidently been able to get their swords out while I was working because all of a sudden the beast reared back, and I felt like I was riding a bucking bronco as they stabbed it once more. I felt a fleeting moment of guilt for the thing but reminded myself that it had tried to kill us.

As I crossed the ends of the whip over one another I cinched it tight around the creature's neck. I would be happy with just knocking it out. We didn't have to kill it. Seeing the injuries we had inflicted on it, I had no doubt that its death was near no matter what I did with the whip. Nothing could lose that much blood and survive.

I pulled tighter and tighter, hoping that it would just give up, but it didn't. The beast fought till the very end. When it slumped and fell to the floor my heart broke a little. I'd never killed anything like that before. Mosquitos, spiders, ants, sure, but this was a sentient being, maybe the last one of its kind, and I'd just taken its life. Nausea rolled in my gut as I tumbled from where I'd been holding the whip and fell off the beast's back.

"Tessa!" One of the guys called my name, but I couldn't move.

My body was unresponsive as I lay there the numbness spreading all over me. Griff appeared above me and so did Finn a second later. "Numb," I muttered before I completely lost control of my mouth.

"What?" Finn asked, his brows pinched in concern.

"My body is numb," I said, or at least tried to. My words were starting to sound slurred.

"What the fuck is this?" Griff asked as he looked over at Finn.

"I don't know! I didn't even know this place existed, or what the hell that was!" He gestured to the creature. "Look, we need to sit her up, so she doesn't choke on her own tongue or something, don't we?"

"Sounds like something we should do," Griff agreed, and the two of them scooted me over to a pillar and propped me up so my back was resting against it.

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