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Sophie screaain in the sudden darkness She bucked and twisted, straining to break free of the hands that dug into her shoulders and waist even as she fought the panic flooding through her If she lost control, the water would coetting soaked as the things dragged her deeper into the tunnel Pulling on years of training, Sophie shoved the fear aside and jammed her elbow back hard

It should have hit tissue hard enough to drive the air fros Instead pain shot down her ar srabbed her free ar it back Pain blooan to rain fro

“No!” she shouted

A roar echoed in the tunnel The creatures shrieked and chittered Then suddenly she was free, the bony hands knocked away as so rocketed into them

No, not so Mick

Sophie st

uat the weight of the water It was so heavy in herin on all sides Her body shook with the effort of forcing it away again

So her hands, lightning balling in her pal out as the flickering light revealed a huge black wolf He nudged her hip again, pushing her back toward the entrance Sophie lifted her hand high, looking down the tunnel

Bits of skeletons were scattered across the floor Skeletons No wonder she hadn’t hit flesh As she looked, the torso of one rolled over and began groping its way toward theers outstretched, theirwith a clack! as they ran with their stuait

“Run!” she shouted, sprinting away from the entrance

Beside her, Mick snarled and nipped at her heels, trying to herd her back toward the stairs

“I knohere I’ Come on!”

Hands reached out fro her stu every last drop of standing water deeper into the ground Dry, dry It has to be dry If she fired off any of her lightning ater on the ground, she risked electrocuting Mick His rubber-soled boots had gone the way of the rest of his clothes when he shifted

Almost there

So burst out of the wall to Sophie’s left, and her shoulder sank into rotting flesh Ar at the putrid sainst the zo crunch before the ar hard, she stumbled back