Page 174 of Fires of the Forsaken
He hit the deck in a heap.
Seruf whirled toward me, her luminescent blood puddling on the ground around her feet. “Darling…” her attempt to revert to a sing-song voice backfired. She sounded like a demented wind-up doll. “I won’t make…suffer.” Her voice warbled and echoed, as though there were a dozen versions of her screeching at once. “… pain… no less than he deserves…”
Whywas her voice doing that? She was talking gibberish!
“But you…attached…so grant…mercy.” More unintelligible words. And her skin turned translucent, as though someone had shoved a UV bar up her ass and illuminated her insides.
“Step aside…” Seruf blathered. “…get it over…rise again…”
I scrubbed my hands over my ears.
My palms tingled. So did my ears. And the back of my neck. It was a burning itch that made me want to peel my flesh off. Like that time I’d used Nair and had an allergic reaction.
The fuck was happening to me?
I rubbed my wrists together, desperate to relieve some of the irritation.
Seruf stepped forward, stretching a hand toward Cheriour.
“Stay away from him.” I shimmied in front of his prone body.
Nowmyvoice echoed.
Seruf took another step, leaving glowy footprints on the ground.
“I saidstay away!” I snapped.
At this, Seruf sighed, her happy-go-lucky facade slipping, and spewed more rubbish.
The light under her skin got brighter and brighter. And a sound pierced the air; a ringing in my ears, but worse. Because it was more likeshrieking.
Pain ricocheted around my temple. The prickling itch under my skin intensified.
She moved closer, her wings still spasming.
I threw my hands out, instinctively trying to push her away. But then my hand sank throughher chest.
“Gah!” I squealed when my wrist disappeared inside her glowing boob. “The f—”
A jolt of electricity shot through my veins.
The screaming got louder.Disembodied voices swirled around me.
“Seruf!”
“Please don’t!”
“Help!”
“How were we defeated at Sanadrin? You had best fix this, Seruf—”
“You monster!”
“—or you’ll join the humans.”
“He was only a child!”
WHACK!
