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I exhaled…
The hate and rage vanished.Power filled me. Life.
I saw the crystal as it was. Not an entity, exactly, but a source of something. It echoed the emotions of the things tied to it.
I saw how it had given pieces of itself when the fey had asked for its help.
I asked for help.
And I saw a shard drive into the skull of the infected pressed against the surface.
I inhaled…
Information flooded my mind.All the things that had come before. Details I’d heard from Mya and Molev and more I hadn’t.
I saw the endless suffering of the fey.
I saw Molev sitting beside the source, admitting his weariness.
I felt the source’s message.
Life.
Choose life.
I stumbledback from the source as the shard broke off and the infected fell to the side. It blinked at me, not dead, but not standing. It couldn’t die. Not with a headshot anymore. Its heart had hardened like a hound’s, powered by the crystal.
Molev’s angry cry echoed from the mouth of the cave.
I hurried to finish setting the bomb. As soon as I had the fuse laid out, I lit it and sprinted toward the mouth of the cave where Molev was still fighting.
“We need to run!”
CHAPTERTWENTY-FOUR
Molev’s savageryreached a whole new level at the sound of my voice. He ripped heads off and threw them far. I saw why when one of the headless infected went stumbling after it.
He removed the last one and turned in time to catch me up in his arms.
He ran hard, dodging oncoming infected.
One caught my ankle, and Molev almost lost his grip on me because his arms and hands were slick with blood. But I held onto his shirt with cramping fingers and kicked out with my other foot. The infected lost its hold without Molev slowing.
It wasn’t enough.
We hadn’t yet reached the cavern’s opening when the explosion rocked the ground beneath us. The boom filled my ears, and I looked behind us. The infected chasing us fell in their tracks. Debris rained down from above as the cave continued to rumble.
I wrapped my arms around Molev and held on.
“I love you,” I said. “No matter what happens, I love you.”
He ran faster, swerving around falling obstacles.
We reached the next cave just as the ceiling above collapsed in the previous cave.
The dust from it flooded the new cave. Molev didn’t stop, staying just ahead of the mess. The next cave was better and lit. We saw the infected bodies lying where they’d fallen.
One still walked around but aimlessly. When it saw us, it ran after Molev for a bit until it lost sight and returned to shambling without direction.
