Page 80 of Ever Dark Academy: Vol. 4

“If Grayson had been human, there would have been his terrible death,” Caemorn pointed out as he stepped up beside him.

“Perhaps we caught them unawares here.And the Zradum were the best they could at short notice.Plus, beguiling the students, of course, in a rather nasty way, but… I don’t know.It feels off to me.”Balthazar gestured to the tomb.“Elgar, you said that death walked here and you were sure it was the tomb.And Caemorn, you and Ryder came here, because–ah, this was where Weryn died last time!How gruesome!”

“If Grayson was killed we might have missed this attack altogether,” Elgar pointed out.“Then students and Grayson would be gone.”

“Yes, yes, I suppose, but–”

“I agree with you, Balthazar,” Caemorn said.“This–”

The ground shook as an explosion rent the air.Their vampiric reflexes kept them upright.They swung around.The light sleep on the students was broken, but that wasnotwhat drew their attention.The orange flames on top of the Kaly palace were blazing twenty-feet higher than normal.And in that Halloween-light, Balthazar saw soul after soul pouring out of the palace.He thought of all those soul gems that contained Daemon and their old enemies.These souls did not stream up into the sky in a vapory mist, but landed on the ground with very physical thuds.Hundreds of them.Maybe a thousand.

“Now I know why Roan didn’t send the damned press here,” Balthazar said.“He has them watching a show.”