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Bullets flattened themselves against the enormous crystal, bouncing off without leaving a scratch. Lost within the Ether’s embrace, Desa gasped, but it shouldn’t have surprised her when the crystal survived. The smaller ones were thin and brittle. This thing was as tall as a watchtower and solid all the way through.
Her few seconds of elation ended when Nari’s scream filled her ears. One of those bullets had pierced the other woman’s back. Nari fell over, stretched out on the roof of the pyramid in a pool of her own blood.
And the light around her went out.
Half a mile away, Hanak Tuvar screamed as it tore through the cocoon that they had used to imprison it. Without Nari’s strength, Desa couldn’t maintain it. The demon rematerialized, standing four stories high, tentacles writhing
