ELENA'S POV
I didn't wait for them to move first.
The gold power came up before anyone in that corridor finished processing what they were looking at and I drove it forward in a controlled sweep that hit the nearest four council vampires simultaneously and put them against the walls before they could deploy whatever response they'd been briefed to use against a Nightshade.
Seraphine was already moving through the gap I'd created.
Lucian went right. Dax went left. Kyle covered the stairwell door behind us.
The remaining eight council vampires were better prepared than the first four. They'd felt the power surge and adjusted, spreading out to reduce the effectiveness of another wide sweep, moving to individual positions that required individual responses.
Fine.
I gave them individual
