Darkness would come too soon for Saunders’s liking, but better to build what they could to defend this position. “They have landed, my queen.” One of her leather winged subjects bowed before her. Giblet didn’t remember what name it went by. At this point, he didn’t much care. Soon all resistance to imps’ rule on the surface would be over. Hope’s voice still lingered in his voice, a sound he had yet to come to terms with. “I’m glad to see they are so predictable. Time to end this.” With a flourish, she marched to the citadel’s walls. There, scores of other female demons met her, with leather wings spread wide en masse, they launched into the air and headed east to the boundary of the cloud cover. “f**k me…” From the highest point of the hill, Alegria pointed to a wall of darkness growin

