The Spider: Web of Shadows Book 3 (Hit World: Web of Shadows) by Marisa Wolf & William Alan Webb

Author:Marisa Wolf & William Alan Webb [Wolf, Marisa & Webb, William Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

I portioned the pain off into a corner of my mind and did not allow myself to regret putting off Venus’s offer to heal me. Running did not help anything, but the bullet had skimmed the flesh, not dug in, and I’d moved longer with worse.

In the meantime, the adrenaline helped. We moved through the darkened streets as though we’d worked together countless times before. The only lights were the solar lamps that studded the upper archways of the clustered dwellings. Not a single window was lit and no one had come out of their homes after all the gunfire. This wasn’t a place that saw a lot of noise at night, never mind this sort of noise, so the lack of attention was an additional concern.

If our attackers had placed some sort of concealment around their actions, why had we heard it with enough time to take action? If they’d lulled the nearby populace with kaval, why weren’t we affected?

Venus followed my lead and we circled the butcher’s shop before committing to Hyme’s location in the alley. Tillie was slumped on the stoop at the front of the shop, the shadow of the doorway blurring his shape. Venus dropped to his side and I didn’t stop her. I scanned the empty road and the nearby buildings.

“He’ll live,” she said, straightening. I pressed my back against the building and moved toward the alley. I tapped comms to signal our arrival and stopped at the top of the alley.

“They’re in the dumpster,” Hyme said over comms, though we were close enough to hear him though he spoke low. “I’m going down, Pryadil’shchik.”

I moved quickly to the other side of the alley and Venus took my position. When nothing shot at us, I turned into the alley, back pressed to the wall, while Venus kept cover.

A handful of steps brought me to Hyme. I murmured his name before I touched his shoulder. He sagged under me, but gestured at the small dumpster against the building.

“Venus is behind us. Do you have enough left to cover the other side of the alley?” Each tiny movement of his body told me of blood loss and coming down from the high of a firefight, but he had reserves yet. It might kill him to stay upright, but you conserved resources in order to deploy them when required, not to hoard forever.

After a breath, he nodded and straightened, hurrying to the far side of the alley with only a slightly drunken stagger. My own pace wasn’t entirely even as I approached the dumpster, the burn from the bullet wound stretching down my leg.

I considered my options. The two remaining combatants were likely armed. They had at least three compatriots roaming the town. Something was keeping the other residents out of the way and it was nothing I could feel with any sense, kaval enhanced or not.

“Do you want to talk, or die in the garbage?” I asked in Russian, then German, Mandarin, Swedish, and English. Before

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