Chapter Fifty-Four
Denton remained where he stood. The rounds from Sophia’s pistol smacked into the panel that divided the lab, leaving him unharmed.
Sophia had assumed the panel was just glass. Now she realized it was aluminum oxynitride. She’d need something stronger than a pistol round to get to Denton.
‘And ever an ill death may they die,’ he said. ‘That’s why I’m on this side of the barrier. Just in case you did that.’
‘You’re trapped,’ she said.
‘I know you’re lying. You’re not very good.’ He unsheathed a knife from his belt. ‘If you knew how this planet operates, if you could even conceive of the forces dancing at the edges of your world, you’d understand what I’m doing.’
‘You’re insane,’ she said, more to calm herself than to affect him.
No amount of adrenaline could feed he
