Chapter Four
“Lanni!” Jaime leapt over the counter, grabbing my arm before the building stopped shaking.
“What was that?”
He didn’t answer my question. He’d already started dragging me toward the back of the room.
Bang.
Another blast rattled the floor.
The spectators from the fight scattered, most of them surging toward the staircase I’d come up, but some ran the same direction as Jaime and me.
I tried to see over their heads, wanting to know what sort of death had come for us and how quickly the flames from the explosion would consume the building. But, through the haze that had filled the whole city, I couldn’t see any sign of new smoke.
A man with a face full of bruises rammed into me, knocking me sideways as he sprinted toward the back corner.
I stumbled, tipping away from Jai
