Chapter 29: Tracks of Fire
The platform erupted into chaos.
Steel rails tore upward like spears as the tracks split open beneath them. Red fire burst from the cracks, flooding the tunnel walls with hellish light.
Iron Circle fighters charged through the smoke.
Masks gleaming.
Blades drawn.
Elias pointed at the collapsing floor.
“I would like to formally object!”
“No one asked,” Selene said, already moving.
She met the first attackers head-on, knives flashing so fast they looked like black lightning. Two fighters dropped before they understood she had reached them.
Adrian drove forward beside her.
No throne.
No immortality.
Still lethal.
He disarmed one fighter, broke another’s wrist, then kicked a third straight into the fire crack.
Cassian watched with faint amusement.
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