The Harbinger (The 13th Floor) by Rains Christine

Author:Rains, Christine [Rains, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Meira darted down and raked her talons through the minotaur’s neck as it twisted toward her. The bastard couldn’t see any longer as she’d gouged out his eyes, but he could hear and smell just fine. Big and strong as he was, he wasn’t quick enough.

She caught the jugular, and blood splattered the nearest stone wall. The minotaur fell to his knees, clutching at his torn throat. Meira ripped open the other side just for good measure.

The beast gurgled and grunted before falling forward with his own weight. He thrashed as if fighting Hades himself, but went still as Meira landed and folded her bruised and bloodied wings. None of the blood was hers. The beast had nicked her feet with his horns a few times, but it was in moments like this that she was glad to have ugly thick skin.

Meira shook her hair from her face before stepping over the corpse to check on Sam. “Are you all right?”

Pressing a hand to his chest, Sam leaned against one wall. The minotaur had tried to slice him open with his horns, going for something more artsy than just charging Sam and crushing him against the stone. Minotaurs always had something to prove when put into a labyrinth.

“Yes, maybe. I don’t think it needs stitches.” Sam hissed as he lifted his hand to show her the wound. Blood dribbled down over his abdomen and soaked into his pants.

It didn’t need stitches, but the blood loss was a concern. Folding her body and balancing on one leg, Meira used her other foot to pluck some down from underneath the opposite wing. She then gently pressed it against his injury. “This will help soak up the blood and stop the bleeding much more quickly.”

Only when she was standing on two feet again did she notice his expression. It was as if he’d never seen her before. Meira stepped back and looked away. How alien she must seem. A creature far from the angel he had first thought her to be.

“Do you think it’ll be much farther? We’ve been going for hours. The sun’s up, even if we can’t quite see it yet.” Sam remained against the wall, gazing upwards at the sky.

The hours had blurred together. Meira had taken the brunt of the attacks from monsters and spells. Every inch of her body ached. Not even during training had she been forced to fight so much in so little time. Perhaps she was a bit out of practice, but her will pushed her onward even if her body wanted to collapse.

“I don’t know. Distance and time aren’t what they seem here. We might turn the next corner and find the exit.” Though she highly doubted it. The minotaur wouldn’t be the final monster. There’d be something horrific by the exit. Something that Zeus would think would truly challenge Sam. Meira had been trying to think what that might be. It would be something cerebral. And she was worried more and more as they went on that the Thunder God would command her to be that last obstacle.

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