Chapter 221 Gina

I hear Velar before I see her.

I hear her from three corridors away, with Ondine in my arms and Delphine's arm round my waist holding me up. It isn't a scream. It's a roar. It's the sound a forge makes when the bellows go, and the whole of the east corridor's full of smoke.

"Gina, you can't," ...