Chapter 36: Massacre
Blood pools at my feet. Screams echo against the walls. I don’t know how I didn’t hear them sooner. And then I do.
“How dare you,” Cadence says. “You know nothing. You’re powerless. Your plans are worthless.”
Her unexpected attack heightens the unreality of the scene. At the far end of the chaos-filled pipe, Ravel splashes through the barrier with a ragged gasp and seizes the nearest warm body. His golden eyes are wide, teeth bared. He catches my gaze for a single desperate heartbeat. Then he throws himself backward, vanishing with his human cargo.
My gaze stutters from one horror to the next, unable to take it all in. There’s a crush of people massed from one side of the oversized pipe to the other—people who should’ve crossed over by now. Churning in their midst
