As Kai fought back the tide of metal, more waves of the machines blew in from all directions. The dings and scrapes of metal on metal became too loud to bear. Vrethie had disappeared with Lilah and Onaiah, but if they couldn’t destroy Keith Roman soon, Kai would have no choice but to tell Alex to take over, to use his final solution. He scanned the faces of his comrades, contorted in fear, pain and the sheer will to survive. He didn’t want to let them down, but deep down he knew it was over. The final phase in what Kai could loosely term ‘a life’.
‘No,’ Kai felt the word pop into his mind, though it sounded no different from his own inner voice. Wait, was that my thought or someone else’s?
‘Don’t worry, it’s just me, your darling brother.’
Vrethie?
“Who else?” Vrethie was at his side
