Chapter Twenty-Five
Leaving the carbine behind, Olesya launched off the balcony.
She landed on the geometric tiles and rolled past a grand piano. Red robes billowing behind them, a group of deadly Preservers jumped down after her.
The first landed and aimed his staff at her.
With a soft whine, a modified blank round blasted toward Olesya. She dived behind a nearby pillar. The round struck the piano, creating a subsonic vortex ring that tore through the instrument, carving it in two.
She ran for the next pillar across the chamber, the Preserver tracking her with his staff. Another modified round shrieked past. The wall behind her ruptured.
The Preservers fanned out, aiming from different angles.
Olesya slid right into one of them. They tumbled together, into the next pillar. Olesya l
