CHAPTER THIRTEEN
THE SOUNDS OF DARKNESS swirled around Night. She c****d her head to listen. The whispering of wicked things in the breeze combined with the steady throb of the hungry things lurking below her feet reminded her of the rattle of desiccated bones around her neck as she rode to battle. These things that clung to the shadows, they were hers.
All except one. A pitter pat heartbeat to her left, behind her and just above. Her ear twitched as she tried to focus on it, but it came and went, as if the creature that owned it were blinking in and out of existence. But when the sound was there, it was the tick-tock of a very ordinary human heart.
She scowled, peering at the swath of trees and grass ahead, devoid of light in this over-bright city. Even though she'd never seen one exac
