Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons Series) by Leigh Bardugo
Author:Leigh Bardugo [Bardugo, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780399549731
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2017-08-29T00:00:00+00:00
Diana covered Aliaâs body with her own, hurling them both to the ground as the ugly cacophony of gunshots filled the gallery, battering her senses. It was so much louder than in the vision.
âAliaââ she began, but her words were smothered by a thunderous boom.
The vast wall of windows shattered, dropping to the floor in a cascade of glass.
Diana kept Aliaâs body shielded, jagged bits of glass peppering her back and shoulders like wasp stings as people cried out around them.
Men in black body armor were rappelling in through the huge hole where the windows had been. They dropped to the floor near the reflecting pool as party guests scattered, screaming and racing for the doors, gunshots echoing through the room.
Diana dragged Alia behind the shelter of a table. âWe have to get out of here.â
âThe othersââ protested Alia.
The men were advancing from the opposite side of the gallery, tossing guests out of the way as they shone lights in the faces of the bodies that had fallen, examining their features.
They were clearly looking for someoneâsomeone they didnât intend to take aliveâand Diana knew she and Alia didnât have long.
She could smell the fear-tinged sweat of the partygoers, feel her heart racing in her chest, as if sheâd woken suddenly from sleep. She tugged at the knots in the shawl Nim had made of her lasso. There wasnât time to untangle them all. The one weapon she had was useless.
âWe canât just stay pinned down here,â Diana said, shrugging off the knotted rope and tying it around her waist to keep it from constricting her movements. âWe have to make a break for the doors.â
âI donât see the others,â Alia said, peering around the table. âWe canât leave without them.â
Though Dianaâs heart was pounding, her thoughts were clear as she adopted and discarded strategies, her mind turning over the layout of the room, calculating the positions of their assailants. The other guests were trying to crowd through the roomâs two doorways, shoving and pushing at one another in their panic, but she suspected the soldiers would have already barricaded the hallways and would move to seal the doors. Any time someone tried to escape through the shattered glass wall, a bullet struck them down. Diana scanned the shadows of the wide balcony above the reflecting pool where she knew snipers must be lurking.
A bullet struck the slate floor beside the table, sending up a puff of pulverized stone. Diana wondered what a gunshot might do to her, but there was no time to worry about it. She had to get Alia to safety.
âDiana!â The shout came from the other side of the temple, barely audible in the chaos. Jason and Theo were crouched behind another table. She met Jasonâs eyes and gestured toward the rear of the temple. It was the one spot in the room that provided a defensible position with any kind of real cover. If Diana could get Alia there, she would have time to locate Nim and maybe figure out an escape plan.
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