Chapter 114: Whoever that person was, they were UGLY
Celine adjusted her grip on the javelin forming in her hand. “Fine,” she said. “You have brighter ideas than I do.”
They moved quickly, ducking beneath a collapsed arch and weaving past fractured stone. The voidspawn had thinned near the pondyard’s eastern fringe, but that wouldn’t last.
Something cracked underfoot.
A ripple bloomed across the flagstone. Fabrisse hissed, “Tremblehold.”
A void-creature erupted from the ground at the same moment, but its limbs twisted, traction lost as it flailed with a wet screech. Celine’s javelin shattered its head on the downswing. The shards near her palm had already fanned out into her next summon.
Another one burst up near his side. Fabrisse’s hand jerked out instinctively, and a second Tremblehold sent it face-first to the ground. The timing was near-perfect. It sprawled in an arc, scrabbling, and Celine’s follow-up bisected it with an airborne throw.
Momentum held.
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