Chapter 34
Marcon and Basha carried the soldier’s body out of the water and over to the tunnel opening opposite. Iellieth reached out for Katarina’s hand, shaking, and they stepped into the deadly waters and made their way across. On the other side, they rounded a corner, emerging into a passage marked by little more than a trickle.
Basha leaned against the tunnel wall, head hanging low. “We’ve lost a few down here in the last few weeks. Most we haven’t been able to recover. I stopped sending them on individual assignments—too many disappearances in the catacombs trying to find the children.” The stormguard shook his head. “I’d no idea we were up against something like that. Ellie, if you hadn’t . . . whatever it was you did, thank you. I didn’t realize you had powers of that sort.”
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