It’s My Party by Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle

Author:Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle [Vance, Ramy & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642024340
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

Diana and José were digging as fast as they could. They had created a system. Diana would cover the walls with runes and sigils, breaking down the earth so that it was easy to move, expanding their tunnel outward for structural integrity, and José would shovel.

José had stripped off his armor and was double axing in a straight pathway toward where they both had assumed Sandy and Stew were.

The MERC leader worked with a grim determination, his face almost as rough-hewn as the stone he cut through. His axes rose and fell with the constant beat of a metronome. One ax rose as the other fell, chipping the stone away, sending sparks flying up into the air as José’s labored breathing mixed with the sound of cracking rock. The man worked with an urgency that had not been present over the last few days. It was as if he were possessed. His eyes hardly turned from the burgeoning tunnel in front of him. He only occasionally turned to ask Diana to recast Find Target so that he could be assured that he was moving in the right direction. Once the golden light of Diana’s arrow faded, José would return to his mad cutting away of their potential death.

It had been a long time since Diana had seen this side of José. Between his flippant attitude, brash arrogance, and gambling, she had forgotten that beneath all of that bullshit, there was a man who was a MERC. A MERC who took his job and their party seriously. It was a pleasant change. It was also unfortunate that it had taken a near-death experience to bring this out of him.

That being said, José was a beast. He was moving faster than a mechanical mining machine. There was no magic either. It was all muscle and sheer will, breaking straight through the heart of the mountain. It was no wonder that José was seen as God by many of the MERCs, not just the newbs, the vets too.

Diana coated the walls with another round of sigils. They were making headway. She knew that one of the reasons that José was cutting through the rock so easily was because her sigils were softening up the earth. They were a team working as it was meant to. They had slid into their roles so effortlessly.

Somewhere out there was Chip, playing the hardest role of all. Diana knew she was going to come through, though.

José slammed his ax into the rock and sighed heavily as he leaned over and tried to catch his breath. “How much longer do you think we’re gonna be at this?” José asked.

Diana pushed past José and covered his wall with sigils with a wave of her wand. “Don’t know,” she finally admitted. “They can’t be too far unless they’re digging in the opposite way. I hardly doubt that Sandy’s forgotten how to use Find Your Target. We should be coming up on them in a little bit.”

“She could be panicking. Something fucked could have happened to Stew.

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