Inhumans by Lee Shane

Author:Lee, Shane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty

“We can’t kill a city’s worth of monsters.” Orrin tapped his fingers on his borrowed sword, the blade still tacky with Prowler blood. “Neither can this Camille. Vera and her guard are most certainly watching Lower Umbroke and the tunnel topside. I don’t believe Cam will double back, because she knows that Vera is waiting for her, and she knows that being an inhuman gives her a far better chance of making it through the monsters.”

I followed his logic. In fact, I liked it quite a bit.

“But she doesn’t know that Hider doesn’t have that same privilege,” Atell said. “She may expect any monsters to ignore him, too. And when they don’t, maybe she’ll just leave him behind.”

“That would be nice,” I said, “but I don’t think she’d go through the trouble of snatching him just to dump him as soon as she was challenged. Whatever she’s doing, she’s doing for Titheu. She won’t just give up.”

“My point is,” Orrin said, “we know where she’s going. Out through this third city, and then south to Cartha.”

“Then why don’t we just go to Cartha?” Atell suggested. “Wait for her there.”

“It’s not going to be...easy to find. Without my map.” I chewed on the inside of my cheek. “That...damn woman...”

Orrin held up his hand. “It’s not right, regardless. We don’t know that she’ll make it through the third city—if we knew where that city let out, the point where the monsters are entering it, then we could wait in ambush there. But we don’t.”

“You’re right,” Atell said. “And if Vera did, she would have sealed that spot. Probably.”

“And we want to reach them before Cartha,” Orrin continued, his features darkening. “At Cartha, there will be Titheu to deal with along with everything else.”

I thought about Titheu leaving its castle and moving south, closing in on the remains of my home city. The image made rage crackle through my veins, forcing my hands closed into fists. We’d have something of an easier time finding Cartha since I knew the area, but we’d only beat Cam and Hider to Cartha if we got exceedingly lucky. I didn’t want to count on that.

“We don’t have a lot of time to play with,” I said. “We’re in here and we’re committed to this course. We’re standing at this entrance to the city; Cam went through the other entrance. Hopefully there’s only one other exit—the one that was breached by the monsters. If we can find Cam and Hider before we reach the exit, great. But we’ll probably be busier just trying to make it that direction without dying.”

“That’s not great encouragement,” Atell said, raising an eyebrow at me.

“It’s not encouragement,” I said. “We move quickly, and we stay quiet and hidden. If we have to fight, we’ll probably die.”

“Right, then,” Orrin said, straightening up. “Keep the light as dim as you can without making us blind, and let’s go get a lay of the land.”

We moved down the tunnel about as fast as we could

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