The corridor exploded into a storm of noise and shrapnel.
Rivet's rotary g*n fired red-hot, finger-thick steel rivets at a rate that turned the air into a meat grinder.
Zane didn't think. He reacted with the supernatural speed of the Essence flowing through his veins.
Grabbing Kael by the back of his suit and hurling the screaming boy behind the thick concrete corner of the elevator shaft.
He dove after him just as the space where he had been standing disintegrated.
Chunks of concrete and twisted metal sprayed across the hall.
The sound was deafening, a continuous, jackhammer roar that vibrated in Zane's teeth.
Wren was gone.
She had slid across the floor the moment the barrel started spinning, disappearing into the shadows of the destroyed junction box alcove.
Zane pressed his ba
