SCARLETT
The laughter of the Devourer rolled through the shattered keep like an earthquake. Dust sifted from the high rafters and rained over us in a fine gray veil. Every instinct I possessed screamed to run, but the silver fire inside me only burned hotter, anchoring me to the fractured floor.
Kael’s flame surged around his fists, brighter than I’d ever seen. “Scarlett move!” He took a step toward the creature, the heat of his power warping the air.
Darius flanked him, lightning cracking down his arms. “We hold it back. You shut the door. Do you hear me?”
Lucien’s shadow leapt across the broken stones like living smoke, wrapping the pit in coils of darkness. “She can’t close it if we’re dead,” he growled, eyes like black suns. “Strike when I say.”
The Devourer tilted its massive sk
