CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR If it had ever occurred to Eva this journey to rescue her daughter was a bad idea, it was rammed home now. The headlong flight down the ramp from one gigantic structure to another was as hopeless as it was crazy. There was nowhere to hide and now an angry mob of indestructible demons was baying for her blood. The slope gave the Shikari the advantage of an initial burst of speed, but Eva was not fit and trained like they were. Soon, she began to falter, her knees jolting with every step, pain shooting up through her legs despite the support of the combat suit. The faltering way Gila moved betrayed evidence she was feeling it, too “We have to get to Emdy,” Wolverton said through the team’s radio, which only functioned now due to a small generator Emdy Sengupta had been

