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One of the demons looks at me I can’t help but think that it’s the sas are on fire, and his glistening body glows red from the reflection He snaps his e closer

Theheads scream as they come at me with an intensity that’s beyond insane All balls of teeth and eyes and writhing hair

All I know is that I do not want one of those latching onto s as fast as I can I do a sharp turn around a corner and run behind a broken building

There’s a hatchway in a cru wall I throw it open

I’m about to race down the stone steps into the darkness belohen one of the Watchers crash-lands on the ground in front ofits way into his back

Twoheads land on him One latches on and rips a strip of flesh off his arins whipping around, pulling part of Beliel’s scalp with it

Beliel grabs the one off his scalp and crushes it

I jump in and viciously kick the head off his back Beliel is et killed My head hurts just trying to understand what it would mean if he dies here

The last head is chewing its way up the strip of torn skin on his ar Beliel’s bellow of pain I stoers up onto his feet I shove him down the dark stairs and slam the hatch behind me

I try not to pant too loudly as I latch the door shut

We seeht is from the cracks of the hatch door, and it’s too dark to see whether there’s another exit

The ground vibrates Large, heavy chunks of debris thunk down against the hatch

I stiffen and get ready, gripping my sith both hands A sense of doom vibrates off Beliel as he stands with his ear cocked toward the hatch, as though he’s been here a thousand ti at how torn and trashed he and the other Watchers are, that doesn’t seeles as the heads attack it with their teeth The gnawing and buoes on forever before it finally stops

Then a great rattling and the sound of whipping moves past outside The demons must not have seen where we disappeared to, even if their whip heads did

The chariot rattle fades into the distance

I cautiously let round hovel of so lies in the shadows, a raised seat o fireplace

‘Do you knohat they would have done to you?’ asks Beliel in a raspy whisper beside me

I jump I hadn’t realized he was so close

‘Those heads,’ he says ‘Do you knohat they scream for?’