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And then Raymond kamikazed their ship.
The smaller vessel did not have the heft of this one, but he was going full out when he hit. The crash sent us slamming into a massive stalactite, and suddenly, I wasn’t sure where one vessel started and the other ended. But I was sure of one thing.
I had until the fey recovered to get off this ship.
So I did, slithering out from under the remaining pile, many of whom had been helpfully thrown into their friends by the crash.
“Hurry up!” Ray yelled. “What are you doing?”
“My legs no longer work,” I said thickly, although my elbows were pulling me along pretty quickly.
That was just as well, because my words seemed to utterly incense Ray. “Sons of bitches!” he screamed, and suddenly, the whole capsule was filled with jumping, blue white fire.
I had just rolled back onto ours, which was looking a little worse for the wear, with black impact marks on the metal and a missing shutter. But it was not dented, surprisingly. Although the interior was alarmingly full of rocks.
And so was the side of Ray’s face.
He had clearly taken the brunt of the last barrage, but he was a vampire. He remained on his feet, furious and functional. And he looked better than most of those on the now fiery hulk beside us.
“What did you do?” I asked Ray, as the fey screamed and burned, some of them jumping into the darkness, others leaping for us—
And missing, because Ray was backing us up, and backing fast.
“Found these,” he panted, pointing down at a trio of nodules sticking out of a panel below the door. They looked like the ends of the fey’s spears, only blunted. I supposed because they weren’t intended to stick into anything. Instead—
“Oh, you want some more?” Ray screeched at the fey ship, which was now pursuing us. “You want some more? All right, have some more!”
The darkness lit up with a triple blaze of blue white energy, which smacked into the fey’s craft like a fist. I doubted that it would make much of a difference, as the vessel was already burning. I was wrong.
The fey’s craft exploded, like a brilliant supernova in the darkness, sending fiery shards and smoldering bodies everywhere. It was so bright that it lit up a huge swath of the cave, causing reflected flames to leap on walls of what looked like ice, but were probably just coated in more limestone. Because the stalactites looked like they were boiling, too.
The fey’s craft plunged into darkness, dragging flames behind it, and was soon swallowed up, leaving us all alone in the big, echoing, empty space. Only not entirely empty. There was something . . .
“What is that?” I asked Ray, peering into the darkness.
His eyes narrowed, but they probably had the same problem with leaping aftereffects that mine did.
“I dunno. Gimme a sec.” He did something to one of the flanges, which abruptly caused all of our lights to go out.
And made those in the distance, approaching from all sides, seem that much brighter as a result. They looked like car headlights, getting closer. Because that’s essentially what they were, I realized. Only instead of cars, they were affixed to the sides of the feys’ strange crafts—what looked like dozens of them.
All of which were converging on our location.
“Well, fuck,” Ray said.
Chapter Nineteen
Dorina, Faerie
Our second waterfall was green. Or perhaps that was a trick of the light. There wasn’t much of it, even to my eyes. But some crystals in the side of the cliff where we’d taken refuge shed a faint, emerald glow.
I almost wished they hadn’t, as it allowed me to see Ray’s pinched and worried face as he examined me.
Outside the curtain of water, which was less dense than the one in our first cave, I could see the fey vessels patrolling. They knew we were here, as we had not had enough time to escape. They just didn’t know where.
But they were searching.
We had slipped behind the waterfall, into a slight depression in the rock, before they arrived, not having any other choice. It made us hard to see with our own lights extinguished, but hard was not impossible, and the fey seemed to have realized that we must be hiding nearby. Their lights had swept past us once already, but the falling water seemed to have confused them. I didn’t know how much longer it would do so, however, and I could not walk, much less fight.
