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Tommy threw his will against Hanak Tuvar. Backed by his two companions, he should have made some headway, but the beast only laughed at him. He tried and tried to sever its connection to the horde of dead soldiers that surged into the city, but it was no use. Three people just weren’t enough. Even with Desa, they would have had a hard time defeating this creature. It might have been impossible.
He sensed her in the plaza outside the bookkeeper’s office, a tiny figure made of trillions of particles who leaped from a rooftop. He felt Desa’s Gravity-Sink draining energy into the Ether, cushioning her fall so that she landed gently on the cobblestones.
And he felt the swarm of enemies coming to kill her.
So many.
Did they know that Tommy was here in this little apartment, that he and N
