WHEN REINFORCEMENTS CAME, Eve was ready for them. The first guard that appeared at the bottom of the stairs caught a bullet in the shin, and the second dropped his rifle as a slug pierced his shoulder. A third braced herself against the wall at the bottom of the stairs, taking wild shots upward from around the corner. Eve ducked as several shots pinged off the steel bars of the cell directly behind her, burying themselves in the stained walls and floor.

Teth threw a lightning ...