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5 ELLIE AND CEREBUS

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The ferry slid away from Manly Wharf with the lazy confidence of something that had made this crossing a thousand times already that morning.

Ellie leaned on the rail, sunglasses pushed up into her hair, boots braced wide against the deck’s gentle sway. The salt air was sharp and clean, the kind that made the city feel briefly forgiven. Behind her, Cerebus lay sprawled in the sun like an oversized, three-headed tourist attraction—one head asleep, one watching gulls with professional interest, t
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  • WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE   19 The Sacrifice

    They hadn’t made twenty metres up the ridge before everything failed.The first warning wasn’t sound. It was sensation.A deep electrical surge ran through the Opera House—not lightning, but load failure. Power bled sideways through damaged grounding mesh buried beneath the tiles, turning wet stone and exposed ribs into live paths. The building vibrated with it, a low metallic hum that rattled teeth and set nerves on edge.Gallus reacted at once.Water surged back toward the forecourt as pumps reversed under stress. Tiles at the lowest edge buckled. A tentacle burst from the flood and wrapped around Gabe’s chest.The impact lifted him clean off the stone.“Gabe—” Ellie started, already moving.The tentacle hauled him upward toward the shattered sails, dragging him across slick stone toward the hooked beak forming between broken panels. There was no finesse to it—just water and mass pulling weight.Gabe didn’t fight.He locked his arms, tucked his chin, and let the motion carry him. Fi

  • WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE   18 The True queen of Werewolves

    Rain hammered the Opera House forecourt hard enough to flatten reflections and steal depth. The wide stone became slick, uneven, treacherous.Six people walked into it without slowing.Angelinka was already in a fight.She slid across the top step as the Queen’s claws tore sparks from stone where her head had been a heartbeat earlier. Jane rolled, came up low, claws already moving.The Queen stayed on her—fast, precise, never wasting motion.“You should have stayed gone,” the Queen said. “Your people didn’t.”Jane slashed across her ribs and took a blow to the shoulder for it. Bone rang. She kept her feet.Below them, the team advanced.Gabe went straight up the forecourt, boots slapping wet stone. Scott stayed a step behind him, Demonslayer low and close. Ellie held the right with Cerebus, one hand buried in the dog’s wet fur, the other near her dagger. Brooke stayed tight with Jake, fingers locked into his sleeve, watching his breathing instead of the fight.Werewolves revealed them

  • WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE   17 The Queen and Gallus

    The harbour precinct was partially flooded.Water backed up through storm drains and service channels beneath the Opera House, overwhelming pumps never meant to run this long. Maintenance alarms blinked behind locked panels. Concrete darkened with moisture. Metal grated as something shifted below.Gallus surfaced where a drainage sump had filled beyond capacity.Water parted as his body rose, limbs scraping concrete. Tentacles dragged behind him, leaving wet streaks across the floor. The hooked beak angled as he oriented himself, air moving through the openings along his body.The Werewolf Queen waited on the loading dock.She stood upright, rain soaking her fur flat against muscle. Wolves moved behind her in controlled patterns—no noise, no wasted motion. They weren’t hunting. They were placing themselves.“The city’s movement has slowed,” she said. “Packs are set. We advance.”Gallus did not answer immediately. One limb traced a slow line through the water, testing depth and flow.“

  • WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE   16 Recovery

    They ran through Hyde Park, and it was wet and quiet, nothing stirred, as they quickly ran in the shadows until they saw the sign, Medical Clinic.They found a medical clinic just off O’Connell Street. Inside the clinic, the doors were locked, the lights were low, and their luck was thin. Jake moaned in pain even though he wore his armour-plated cavlar vest; the scratch cut through the plates, and there was definitely blood.‘Hold on, Jake,” said Brooke as she and Scott carried him under the shoulders.They came in through the staff exit with a shoulder push and a breath—Jane on the crash bar, Scott right behind her, Demonslayer still wrapped. They moved fast and quietly down the corridor until Brooke found a treatment bay backed by a windowless storeroom.“This one,” Brooke said. “Gurney. Monitor off. Oxygen off. We don’t need noise.”Ellie dragged screens into place. Gabe jammed a bin into the door track and braced it with a chair. Cerebus lay across the threshold, three heads angle

  • WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE   15 Plan B

    “Eenie meenie, miney.” The Direwolf drooled, and it didn’t charge. He stepped in. One pace at a time to his left, pacing in front of them like they were part of a lineup. Then another. Close enough that rain sprayed off his fur onto the pavement between them. His injured eye stayed half-closed. The good one didn’t blink.“Oh, damn!” Jane said while watching the Direwolf make its choice and sped up into a bolt.She shifted left, at the ready. Baton up. Knife low while rolling her shoulders like a boxer.“You first, girly,” He growled as he sped up again, taunting her.“Not if I have anything to do with it!” Jane responded.The Direwolf anticipated, as if he already knew where she would be.“Jane! he’s foxing you!” Ellie screamed.He feinted high with the right claw and came through low, shoulder-first.Jane got her baton down in time to twist the head of it, but the follow-through from the Direwolf caught her hard in the ribs and snapped her sideways. Jane tried to recover with a full-

  • WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE   14 The Queen’s Gambit

    They didn’t get far.Not chased—redirected.Streets that should have opened didn’t. Parked cars sat angled across lanes like they’d stalled there on purpose. Shop shutters hung half-down. Scaffolding had been nudged just enough to narrow footpaths. Nothing dramatic. Nothing fast. Just obstacles placed by someone who understood how people moved when they were tired and scared.The Queen was moving the board, and pieces were in motion.They felt it before they saw it. The queen had them moving away from the monumental steps to the centre of the forecourt.Werewolves appeared where shortcuts should have been. Not attacking. Standing. Watching. Forcing turns. Steering them without touching them.Brooke slowed the group with a raised hand. “She’s pushing us.”“Not hard,” Gabe said. “Just enough.”They adjusted without talking. Took longer streets. Stayed close. Didn’t argue with the direction—worked around it.Cerebus bristled, all three heads low. Ellie kept her hand on his shoulder, stea

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