What Dusk Divides by Clara Coulson

Author:Clara Coulson [Coulson, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Five Hours Till Dusk

Collapsing the ice dome, I threw myself backward as the horde of fear gorta tumbled down atop McDermott’s body, their hunger drawing them to the fresh corpse. But before they could take a bite, the humming spear cut through the writhing mass, piercing half of them in vital places. The tip of the spear drove itself into the dirt at my feet, and immediately started vibrating as the wielder recalled it. So, careful to avoid the iron addition, I grabbed hold of the shaft and let the spear take me for a ride.

The spear rebounded at great speed, straining my arm muscles. But I held fast as I soared over the streambed, getting a bird’s-eye view of the battlefield. Indira was down for the count, having been touched two or three more times by the fear gorta. She lay slumped behind Odette, who was huffing and puffing as she attempted to fend off ten fear gorta at once with a complex telekinesis spell that allowed her to punch a bunch of large rocks at supersonic speed.

It was a far more effective spell against the fear gorta, as they couldn’t absorb kinetic energy, but it also required a lot more magic energy to perform. Odette was already scraping the bottom

of her spiritual barrel. If this fight didn’t end in the next minute or two, she was going to have to fall back on her life force and hope for the best.

Graham, who’d come to Odette and Indira’s aid earlier, had been overwhelmed by the fear gorta when yet another section of the streambed collapsed to reveal more underground pockets crammed full of the creatures. She’d lashed out with high-impact spells, crushing and slashing the creatures. But because she’d fallen into the pit with the fear gorta, at least one of them had managed to touch her.

The resulting energy zap had weakened her attacks just enough to allow several more of them to tackle her. She was now buried under a squirming pile of fear gorta, nearly drained of all magic energy. And while she wasn’t yet dead, her choking gasps as one of the creatures violently strangled her indicated she wasn’t long for this world.

As I flew overhead, I pointed two fingers at the pile of fear gorta and shot off a blast of cold air. Halfway to the ground, the air coalesced into a volley of baseball-sized hail. The hail pelted the creatures, shattering bones and bursting organs and imploding skulls.

With all the fear gorta sprawled atop Graham either dead or disabled, she was able to extricate herself from the tangle and make a desperate lunge for the edge of the pit. She was so disoriented that the normally easy jump was a tedious endeavor, and her feet scrabbled against the dirt walls until they found enough purchase to push her up and over the edge.

When she rolled onto her back, heaving in air through her damaged throat, she caught my eye just before the spear carried me across the tree line.

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