Cinder stared blankly for a while. She tried to hit Sinnett again, but he phased right before she touched him, which was annoying.
"You're annoying," she hissed, lunging again.
The few soldiers still running after Asher and Nova were met with their end.
Nova spun mid-run, fired two arrows at once, one to the knee, the other to the throat. She didn't even stop to see them fall.
Asher reached the tunnel entrance and knelt to lay Zero down for a moment. Her breathing was shallow, and he could feel the poison pulsing in her veins.
"We need to go, now!" Nova shouted as she reached him.
"Just one more second," Asher said. He removed a syringe from his pocket that he had taken from the desk across the room and injected it into Zero's neck, a temporary stabilizer. Her body twitched, then relaxed, though she remained unconscious.
They were ready to run, until the sound of metal shattering made them turn back.
Sinnett had Cinder against a pillar now, not too far from them.
