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"That wasn’t an earthquake" Aiden reached to his hip, but he was e and had coers

"I think that’s obvious," Deacon muttered from behind Luke

All of us were i swiveled fro the crushed tile on its hands and knees A great shudder rolled through the wrecked body and it doubled over, opening itsclu onto its knees, back bowing as it threw its ara;ρεάν"

It was a tone of voice so guttural that it sounded like its vocal cords had been destroyed, spoken in a language I didn’t recognize at first, and wouldn’t have if od abilities hadn’t been unlocked

"Free," I repeated, looking across the rift "It said ‘free’"

Upon ain

"Free fro Dead?"

Any other ti to bare feet that were nothing nawed muscle and bone It took a step towardno idea if it understood a single thing I said

The thing shuffled another step forward

"I think it likes you," commented Alex, from the other side of the rooht behind the er to fight I lifted a hand, hoping that whatever this thing was, it was a friendly and would listen to narly hand in my direction, it opened its ed, broken teeth

Okay

Probably not friendly

I reacted, tapping into the power--into akasha Suy whip downin its chest

It flew backward

Alex let out a strangled sound as she and Aiden dropped to the floor The thing shot across the chas into the opposite wall in a way that re about 100 ruesome sound burned osh" I droppedto be sick," Gable ht vomit"

Alex and Aiden rose, their eyes wide as they looked over the rift at me Aiden’s dark brows rose halfway up his forehead "Whoa," he said

"II didn’thard "I uess it’s a good thing you didn’t accidentally set one of us on fire," Luke commented

My head snapped in his direction "I only did that, like, once!"

Luke grinned

"That was kind of i "I can control air, but not with that kind of force"

"Well, that’s because she’s a real deods--"

"Guys I think we’re about to get more visitors" Luke pointed at the chas real deods later"

They came out of the rift faster than the lone one, all in the sa shape Their bare-boned feet clicked off the pieces of tile

There were al like this

Their jaws snapped, exposing ragged teeth that could easily tear through skin

"Zoht in front of you," Deacon said

One of the toward Alex She hopped back as she threw out her ar skidded backward, falling into the fissure