CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
I look up through my half-closed eyelids.
The High Priest clearly doesn’t think me and Kit a threat. A lightning ball leaving his hands, he’s focused on the stage, where Cadmael is approaching the bomb.
Puck. My nightmare is threatening to become reality.
Itzel’s grandfather must remember what I told him about the threat of the other gnome. With surprising speed for his age, he turns and shoots a lightning ball into the path of the one flying at his head.
Boom.
Colliding just a few feet from the stage, the two lightning balls violently explode, the blast knocking Cadmael off his feet.
I glare at the High Priest.
Pucking bastard. He’s ruined everything.
There are mere seconds left on the timer—no time for the older gnome to get up and disable the bomb.
Well, if
