Chapter 20
IN THE PLACE between life and death, Tandor shook awake when Ruko laughed. He sat up, a lingering chill of a cold blast still clinging to him.
“What was that?”
“Didn’t I tell you we’d win?” Ruko said. “The stupid Chevakians put up their silly walls, but we’re much stronger than that.”
Tandor tried to look outside that place, and recognised none of the twisted shapes that he could make out. He didn’t even see his own body, nor that of Ruko. All he could see was some sort of valley with on both sides hills made out of rubble.
Where were they, and how long had he been asleep?
Had he even been asleep?
He now remembered the pain that made him pass out. They’d passed the barrier, which meant that they were now in Chevakia and the fact that he was conscious in this place meant t
