I couldn't wait for the corpse flowers to come to me instead of the lake. With Night's Fall all nice and glowy, it could get me out of here, and fast.

"Take me to the police station," I said, thrusting Night's Fall into the air.

A black nothingness swept me up in its grip, not at all like the bright and flowery underground cavern. The sword rushed me through the dark void and then spit me out onto a street. I crumpled to the ground in front of a tan-bricked building ...