Chapter 29: Captured
Ash is calling for me.
I need to check on the barrier, but he sounds desperate. When I reach him, he’s one of the last left standing. Refuge Force have him backed into a corner in the remains of Freedom’s blue hall. He won’t pull blades on humans, but his hand-to-hand skills have clearly benefitted from better training than the enforcers’. It takes a half dozen of them rushing him all at once, and even then they don’t bring him down unscathed.
“Oh, do shut up, lover,” Cadence says from behind a wall of enforcers in the center of the room.
“Do you even know what that means, dead girl?” Ravel’s bloody nose and swollen lip mangle the words, but he manages a supercilious look despite the gleeful enforcers ensuring he doesn’t get up off his knees.
Cadence darts a quick
