The Other World 2 by Tracey Tobin

Author:Tracey Tobin [Tobin, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781710287066
Published: 2019-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

Fine, you want a show? she growled inside her head, I’ll give you a goddamn show.

The roar that escaped her throat echoed all across the arena, which sent the Coiyana into an even greater frenzy. Beneath her claws Tori felt the Shadow’s neck dissolve as its head came dislodged from its body. She experienced half a second of victory before the inky-black arms of the creature reached up to grab her, flung her several feet across the hard ground, and began searching for its lost head. Tori was staring at it with her jaw hanging when Jacob’s sword pierced the chest and his voice scolded her: “Heart, remember?! Only the heart!”

Tori was on her feet a moment later with a grumble on her lips. “What the hell can live without a goddamn head?” she hissed, though mostly to herself.

At this point she couldn’t tell if the crowd was loving it or hating it. With Tori’s head-popping assist she and her Guardian had now managed to dispatch three of the Shadows. There was a great deal of cheering and yelling going on, but it was impossible to tell from the cacophony whether the Coiyana were cheering for the Shadow’s deaths, or egging the remaining Shadows on. She wondered, half-heartedly, if anyone in the stands was actually rooting for her to win, or if all they cared about was the blood and violence.

She spotted her dropped dagger and dove for it, rolling back up to her feet with a grace that her human form would never know. She plunged the blade into the chest of the fourth Shadow, which had snaked over her as she danced across the floor. She missed the heart, but put all her strength into pulling the blade sideways and out, which gave her enough time to side-step away and find Jacob’s company again.

She’d raised her weapon for another attack when an skull-splitting shriek made her flinch and bump backward into Jacob’s shoulder. The Shadow she’d just wounded had its arm extended, pointing at her chest, and was screaming horribly, an absolutely ungodly noise. After a confused moment, Tori looked down and realized that her pendant had fallen out from under her shirt during her acrobatics.

So much had happened since the last time she’d thought about the pendant that, for a while, Tori had actually forgotten that she was even wearing it. The small clear crystal on its delicate gold chain was quite unique, with an image engraved inside that was so intricate you would have thought it carved by pixies. A broadsword wrapped in vines that were covered in roses: the symbol of the Kynnon Royal Family. The one and only piece of evidence she had of her birth parents, left for her by the Queen when she was mere minutes old. It had been a powerful and wonderful symbol once, but Iryen had given it to the leaders of his Shadow hoards for the past two decades. Tori had actually taken another one from the melted body of the Shadow she’d protected Jiki from during the attack on the Maelekanai village.

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