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"Deacon," Aiden said calers "Get Gable into the kitchen Keep hi around, he grabbed the stunned-into-silence Gable and hauled ass to the kitchen, sla the door behind thes howled a sound of rage and blood, sending a shiver down ure out as happening, what these things really were, or why they were cos could uys The rest raced in h od, but these things were terrifying looking, and I was just a et her flesh torn off her bones

But I wasn’t amy body to move I darted to the left as I tapped into the powers stirring insidethe raised dais, I spun around A small ball of flames hit one of the creatures in the back Fire erupted, sing its body

"Holy crap," I whispered

On the other side of the chasht fla out another as Luke brandished a dagger Apparently he’d been the only one who ca forward, he slaer into one of the eye sockets and jerked his arust asshrieked as it fell to the floor, shattering upon ier He twisted, eyeing another creature "So freaking gross"

Tapping into the fire eleh ht ar the closest creature toanother creature The third zigged and zagged on h that the smell of rot and death turnedinto fire once more Flames swa out o just as another creature shot forward The fourth creature took the hit in the shoulder, spinning it around I turned as the fifth one ju no more than a foot in front of me I reared back, but it wrapped a bony, fleshless hand aroundthe air out ofout a hoarse screa back, I tore h its face from behind

It didn’t jerk or spas into a pile of clu face to face with Luke

"Looked like you could use the help," he said, twisting at the waist "Are you okay?"

Breathing through the pain, I looked down at ers burned et a chance to respond, because those on fire were rising fro charred skin and bone

"What the hell?" I gasped out, pressing my wounded arm to my sto up, both with the saood," she said "I thought fire killed zombies"

"Yeah, I don’t think these are zombies, babe," Aiden replied

"Head shots seem to work," Luke called out "So they’re kind of like zoers" Aiden stepped to the left, halfway in front of Alex It seemed like an unconscious, protective move "We could push the that, as if the gods were laughing at us, several more clioing to work" Alex sighed

My dagger was nowhere to be found a the broken tiles It could’ve even fallen into the chass, then

I only knew of one other thing

Instead of pushing away the pain, I used it to fuelinto the very center ofthe supre up to the sun It was a release--a burst of white light powered down ht to one of the charred creatures luht shrouded the creature for a half-second, and then it exploded into ash

"Well, that works, too" Luke grinned, obviously having way too ht he could stop being a Sentinel

Following suit, Alex and Aiden suer We took down nearly a dozen, but they strea Dead

Exhaustion was already settling into ht’ve been the lack of sleep or the battle with Atlas and how Seth hadhow he had fed off of all of us, but we couldn’t keep this up forever

Akasha rippled down round shook once runted as I hit the floor ononto ed in air between my teeth