While Zerandan and Mikelos kept watch, Victory and Asaron arranged Felix along the edge of the passageway lined with bones, beneath the empty eye sockets of vampire, elven, and werecreature skulls. They pulled the dead elves and unknown dead vampire to the opposite side. Victory tugged the knife from Felix’s eye socket and returned it to the woman’s belt. The weapon was well forged, but she wasn’t in the business of collecting trophies.
They followed Zerandan away, leaving behind the fallen to be consumed by darkness. If they failed in this mission, they would join Felix. They’d join all of the dead in the Catacombs, forever buried beneath Parisii.
The group moved along corridors lined with bones in silence. Zerandan traced an unknown mental map, though he did pause at one doorway in a h
