Chapter 12
A loud bang at the back of the van shook me out of my horror induced daze as we shuddered to a halt.
‘What the hell was that?’
I tore my eyes away from Talaom to look in the side mirror. ‘The roller door. We hit it.’ The bottom of the door had slammed into the roof of the van. ‘Hit the accelerator. Keep going.’
‘It’s not working.’
‘I’ll fix this,’ I said, looking out the front window to where Talaom was smirking as he stalked towards the van. ‘You need to get out of here. Don’t stop, for anything, until you’re safe.’
‘What about you?’
‘I’ll be fine. Just be ready to get out of here the second I blast the door out of the way.’
I slipped out of the van and faced Talaom, calling on the aether surrounding us and wrapping it around me like a cloak. Then I did something I thou
