Chapter Sixty-Two
Sophia wrapped her arm around her head to muffle the piercing sound that filled the donut-shaped corridor. Behind her eyelids, she saw the grenade’s xenon lamps pulsing viciously. They made the corridor walls hot like the surface of the sun.
She traversed the floor on her hands and knees and found herself halfway across the body of an Elohim. He writhed beneath her, blind and disoriented.
All the Elohim had collapsed to the floor. Cecilia had fallen too. Her off-white trench coat was difficult to see among the Elohim’s white combat suits, but Sophia found her. She collapsed beside her.
The flashing dissipated. Sophia had five seconds before the Elohim’s vision would return. She guessed a further ten seconds before they gathered enough coordination to fire their PEP ri
