Chapter 24
They attacked without warning. Twelve at once. Most leapt into fur, shedding clothes as they barreled toward me. Three dove in armed. One with knives, two with swords.
“Thirty seconds. You can do this.”
Luke’s voice in my head snapped me out of the deer-in-a-headlights stance I’d been stuck in. Right. I was the sword maiden. Was this how Ruth had ended up with all those scars?
One second before I fell beneath their assault, I lifted my sword. Slashed at a human nose. Sliced through a wolf’s ear. Clanged steel against steel.
“Twenty-six seconds.”
Luke’s count slid down slowly, gently, while I hacked and grunted. Fangs bit into my calf and I spun so fast my sword swept through bodies without regard for their humanity.
Someone shrieked and fell. Had I killed him? I hadn’t me
