“Bonnie, take this! Shove it into the hole. Be careful! It’s the only
one we’ve got.”
Sage immediately directed Saber to stand and snarl just ahead of
Bonnie in the tunnel, to keep the stream of panicked demons and
vampires from jostling her.
Carefully, solemnly, Bonnie took the large key, examined it,
cocked her head, turned it in her hands—and placed it in the wall.
“Nothing’s happening!”
“Try turning or pushing—”
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Click.
The door slid open.
Elena and her group more or less fell into the corridor, while Saber
stood between them and the herd pounding by, barking and snapping
and leaping.
Elena, lying on the ground, legs entwined with
who-knew-who-else’s, cupped a hand around her ring.
The fox eyes shone straight ahead and a bit to the right.
They were shining into a cell ahead.
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“Stefan!” Elena screamed and knew that she sounded like a
madwoman when she screamed it.
There was no answer.
She was running. Following the light. “Stefan! Stefan!”
An empty cell.
A yellowed mummy.
A pyramid of dust.
Somehow, subconsciously, she suspected one of these things. And
any one would have caused her to run out to fight Bloddeuwedd with her
bare hands.
Instead, when she reached the right cell, sh