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Human.
“Fuck. She’s not going to change,” Kade growled.
“Ash, put her out of her misery,” Locke said, his black eyes glancing at the lever. His words were detached, but the claws starting to peek from his fingertips betrayed his concern.
I watched the human for a moment longer before heaving a sigh. “Fine. Really thought she’d change with this test though.”
I began to pull the lever back down but frowned when it stuck halfway.What the fuck?
Darian smirked and arched a silver brow. “Having trouble?”
“Something’s not right,” I said peering at the level, then I turned to flash Darian a toothy smile. “It usually goes down as quickly as you do when we spar.”
Darian tipped his head back with a snort. “Shall we test that theory?”
“How about we free the poor girl first, and then you can both piss off to the training cavern,” Kade rumbled.
I pulled with more force, but it still didn’t move.
“Get it to stop now,” said Locke, his lethal command cracking through the air.
“Tryin’ here,” I said as I pulled the lever…right off the fucking wall.Damn it, I had a feeling that would happen.
Locke rounded on me, his eyes pure onyx black. “What the fuck did you do?”
Smiling sheepishly, I tossed the broken lever across the room. “Well, let’s hope that did the trick.”
Turning, I peered into the cavern. The human’s fingers tore frantically at the iron now, and red blood flicked from her cut fingers onto the sand. The rocky ceiling was now only six feet above her head, and still moving toward her. The constant sound of rock scraping against rock grated on my ears, and I clenched my jaw.
Reaching my hand down, I felt for the stub of lever inside the wall. My fingers brushed over jagged pieces, but there was nothing to hold onto.Who the fuck designed this thing?
“I can’t stop it,” I said, feeling the impact of my words. The human would be crushed and she would die, all because some idiot made the lever out of wood rather than iron or steel. She was only a human, but the thought bothered me more than I was comfortable admitting.
As if someone had just shot me with a poison-tipped arrow, pain erupted in my chest, a matching pain to when I’d touched the human’s arm, and my body tensed.
“Fix this, Ash,” Kade growled. “The Taratun council won’t be happy if we lose one.”
“Fuck the Taratun,” I retorted as the pain intensified, and I rubbed at my chest with my palm.
The human was on her back in the sand now, her long red hair curling above her head and a single tear rolling down her cheek. The rocky ceiling continued toward her, only inches away from her body.
Uncontrolled rage waved from Locke, unlike anything I’d felt from him in years. He glared at me, and then he was gone from the room.
I grit my teeth.Like absolute fuck am I going to let this happen.There was something about this human. Something was pulling me toward her, and I wasn’t about to let her die.
Taking a run up, I launched myself at the wall, crashing into it. An ear-piercing crack sounded as the rock crumpled beneath my force, the broken stone falling to my feet creating an opening into the cavern. I eyed the thick slab of rocky ceiling that was being lowered by numerous iron chains. I’d pull the slab upward with sheer brute force if I had to. Squatting, I went to grab the edge of the of the rocky ceiling, but my mouth fell open in surprise as my fingers raked through…
Sand?
A wave of sand rushed downward as the rocky ceiling was transformed into the harmless grainy substance. It fell on the woman, coating her whole body, and she coughed, creating a little cloud of sand and dust in the air.
Locke burst through the door that had reformed on the other side of the cavern, his face the picture of wrath, but he stopped abruptly when he took in the carpet of sand, his shocked expression mimicking mine.
“Did she just…turn that rock into fucking sand?” Kade asked, his brows lowered.
I stared, not bothering to answer him. It was only then I realized the pain had disappeared from my chest.What the?
“What in the name of the Devil Enzal is this woman?” Darian said, his posture still relaxed despite what we’d just witnessed.
