Chapter 38: "The gates, that now stood open wide, belching outrageous flame far into chaos, since the fiend pass’d through[.]"

“The key,” Laube bellows across the gym, “is to remember that blessed steel and fire can’t hurt you – only them!”

“Sorry, sir, but they can hurt us,” one of the young jackals near the front pipes up. “They can’t kill us immediately. We’ll heal. But they can absolutely hurt us.”

Laube gives the kid a ...