We fought through the streets like the city itself was trying to swallow us.
Smoke burned my eyes. Creatures poured from every broken alley. Kairos stayed at my right side, sword never still. I kept my power tightly leashed, only letting out enough fire to keep us alive. Every time a monster got too close he cut it down. Every time one slipped past him I was already moving.
“Left!” he shouted.
I turned and drove my blade through a creature’s neck. Black blood sprayed across the cobblestones. “I see it!”
“Then move faster!”
“I am moving as fast as I can!”
We pushed forward into a narrow street where the bodies already lay thick. A larger creature blocked the far end, its eyes glowing with that same wrong light. Kairos charged it without hesitation. I followed. Steel and claws met in a
