Where the Night Consumes by Gillian Grant

Author:Gillian Grant [Grant, Gillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781737224525
Publisher: Gillian Grant

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The farther north in Direwall she went, the darker it seemed to become. Her eyes strained against the shadows, barely able to pick out dangerous pockets of snow, much less waiting undead. Every time she saw a corner, she had to stop and listen. Was that chattering teeth she heard or just her own imagination? Did she see the glimmer of glowing blue eyes or had vision finally given up on her? Her blood pounded hot in her veins, but the chill of fear never left her.

She tried to remember what she’d told Sorin.

Use fear, let it fill you up.

Evren stopped at a corner and flattened herself against the cold wall. She tried to calm her breathing and quell the rising fear in her. And listen. What did she hear?

But never, never, let it consume you.

Her breathing hitched to a stop as her ears picked something up. Snarls of the undead, the sounds of battle. Voices, desperate and fearful. The sound of glass shattering overwhelmed it all, and the sudden smell of sulfur flooded her nose.

Evren coughed and wrinkled her nose. But there was her path, as clear as day, despite the lack of light.

She took off down the street and towards the chaos. She moved her feet as fast as she could, but they were starting to feel heavier, like she was dragging bags of sand with her. It took no time at all for her breathing to turn rapid and labored. The scar on her chest itched with each heave of her chest. The first time she was running towards something and it reacted, rather than when she was running away.

Evren burst into a battlefield. It was little more than a small pocket of empty streets, but a mass of undead crowded it and clamored towards one corner. Huddled in the corner, back-to-back, Sol and Sahar stood. They were wide eyed, bloody, and terrified, but alive.

Sol found her across the sea of bodies. Her eyes were hopeful then and brimming with tears. She nudged Sahar, who whooped with joy when she laid eyes on her. As Sol slashed her knives in an arc and sent a curve of undead to the ground, Sahar pulled out a bright white bottle. She tossed it in the air, gave it a goodbye kiss and winked at Evren as she launched it in the air as far away from her and Sol as she could get.

Evren watched the bright bottle arc through the falling snow. Some of the undead even reached their decaying hands for it. She drew an arrow without thinking, nocked it, and let the arrowhead follow the falling bottle. Closer and closer it inched towards their heads. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw Sol and Sahar hunker down. The thought to do the same didn’t reach her until she let the arrow loose.

It shattered the bottle easily. The white liquid sprayed over the undead, following the arrow and coating nearly all of them. That was only the first second.

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