Severance (The infernal Guard Book 3) by SGD Singh

Author:SGD Singh [Singh, SGD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Glory Press
Published: 2017-06-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Lexi charged up the stairs three at a time, with Ariella close behind.

How the fuck did Underworlders even find this place? Can they track Silas? But then why didn't they attack days ago, when we arrived? Lexi shook the questions away. None of it made sense, and she couldn't afford to think about how screwed up everything had become. We have our plans, and they have theirs, and that's all there is to it. Figuring it out doesn't change the fact that we're in the shit up to our necks now.

She and Ariella fired holy water rounds into Asura swarming down the narrow stairwell toward them, swirling in and out of the forms of their fears in what Lexi hoped was the Underworlders' final attempt to reach the portal. There couldn't be too many more of these things, right?

“What I'd really like to know,” Ariella gasped over the deafening shrieks, while throwing a holy water grenade into the mass of Asura that looked like their friends in various stages of hideous injury, and who's shrieks were deafening in the confined space, “is how the hell Silas didn't foresee this cluster fuck?”

Ranya could've helped more, Lexi thought, for the five hundredth time. But for weeks the Witch had pretty much refused to speak to anyone except Silas, and rarely even to him. She mostly skulked in the dark corners of the portal room, like some creepy black-haired Shōjō. She even started wearing all white, to complete the look, Lexi was sure.

Whenever anyone got up the nerve to ask about Underworld-ers, she fell into fits of hysterical laughter, so they all stopped asking pretty fast. Asha insisted the Witch wasn't to be pestered, which basically meant looked at or spoken to, and stood in as Ranya's personal bodyguard on the rare occasion Silas needed to do anything other than stay at her side, like bathe or use the bathroom.

It was irritating.

“Silas Sees the end result.” Lexi leapt forward to behead an Asura and jumped back. “Which, I gotta say, I'd be happy to see happen right about now. Preferably before our untimely deaths.”

“So…” Ariella spun, decapitating three more Asura with her trishula. “What you're saying is, we win eventually, but that doesn't mean we win.”

It wasn't the best time to tell her that everyone posted outside was either dead or injured. “Kelakha is on his way with Aquila and Ursala, so things are looking up.”

When the time had come for the three Prophecy-Chosen to make their way down to the deepest and most sacred part of Headquarters to close the portals—to hold magical hands and sing, or whatever the hell they had to do to sever the ties between realms—Lexi had to admit Ranya showed a stoic determination to risk her life along with Silas and Asha. She had refused any acknowledgment of thanks, and simply marched down the stairs in her proud, yet extremely creepy way.

Speaking of stairs, a wave of Underworlders was surging down toward her, and Lexi shouted,

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