See? I am important.
Taking careful, quiet steps, I hug the wall and skirt the border of the array.
I make it a quarter of the way.
I don’t sneeze, trip, or even kick a pebble.
Maybe I’m thinking too hard.
A howl echoes, just how I knew it would.
I sprint for the flattest spot I can find, keeping my back to the wall as more wolves take up the howl.
I wish I’d had time to tape the shaft of my glaive. I rub dust and sweat from my palms, then tighten my grip as the first white-eyed wolf pads toward me.
“I’ll win,” I warn.
The wolf growls.
“Fine.” I level my blade as the pack joins around its leader. “I’ll make you into coats.”
I don’t know how, but I promise myself.
I’m going to survive long enough to give Remy a bowl cut, wearing a wolf-fur stole.
Then I’m going to hang a godsdamned powdered donut on Vhex’s horn and ride his candy stick while I enjoy my snack.
A smaller voice chimes in as the first wolf lunges.
I can’t die here.
No one cares enough about me to come looking for my corpse.
CHAPTER14
VHEX
Fuck.
This.
Bat.
Wing.
Bastard.
I rain hellfire into the shadows.
It hurts.
But the last blast of freezing troll blood cools me down enough to recognize Azrid’s face.
Then I remember:
That face needs to be punched.
He took a slash ending the daddy troll.