CHAPTER 68“Kill it?” exclaimed Badr after the retreating figure of Esyal.
Esyal turned and shouted the answer to a different question above the howling din coming from the swaying carvings.
“None of us want to be here, Badr, but we are, and we’ve no choices left.” She motioned over her shoulder towards Adroyan. “That’s an enemy that’ll kill us all without a thought, and he...” The hand came back over the shoulder and pointed the knife in it towards Josyff’s inert form. “Is important. Guard him as if your lives depend on him — because they probably do. And, yes, if anything comes that’s not me or Henk — kill the damn thing — it won’t be human.”
“I... I can’t kill anything.”
“Then learn or die.”
And Esyal was striding out towards Adroyan again.
Badr bared his teeth and clenched his fis
