Still, there were simply too many of them swarming the room, slipping past Greyson’s ice walls and Ace’s shadow whips.
“They aren’t trying to kill us!” Greyson shouted over the chaos, unleashing a blast of freezing wind that shattered three of the entities into frozen dust. “They’re drones, and they’re just trying to reach her!”
Proving his point, one of the smoke-creatures bypassed Raiden entirely, scuttling across the ceiling like a massive, unnatural spider before dropping down directly onto the console right between Nate and me.
I fell backward, scrambling away on my hands and knees as my breath came in short, hysterical hiccups. The creature had no eyes, just a gaping hole where a mouth should be, lined with jagged edges that looked like broken glass, and as it lunged at me, I thre
