A dozen eyes snapped open and golems swarmed us, the fluorescents from the hallway giving them an eerie glow.

"Whoa." Arkady's eyes lit up.

It was all well and good that I'd told Arkady about my previous run-in and the way to power them down, but we still had to get close enough to rub the "aleph" off of them and we were outnumbered.

Arkady brought his stone fists up, clearing a path through the room. Three of them dog-piled him, his grunts the only sign he was ...