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Dancing In The Dark
Julian should not have been surprised. He had been more than halfway expecting the Out-Dweller to attack them for most of the last hour or more. But regardless, when darkness flowed out of the ripped-open earth like a rolling wave, he stood rooted to the spot in shock.
And then the wave hit him, and he went reeling.
All light vanished.
All around, he heard his friends shouting, but they sounded a million miles away and he could not make out what they were saying.
Other sounds issued through the blackness, skittering sounds, like many-legged creatures crawling over stone, and he cringed.
There were...things...in the darkness, all around.
Julian drew his sword and turned a complete circle - or at least he thought it was a complete circle, but how to tell? - whi
