A Contract With My Demon
"The Old Catacombs. But Elara... the moment you step in there, the White Court will know. They won't send an Arbiter this time. They'll send the Executioners."
Elara looked at Mia, then at her own glowing veins. She felt Vane’s presence—the real Vane—trying to soothe the red fire of Malphas.
"Let them come," Elara said.
They moved through the subway tunnels, past the sleeping homeless and the rats, into the parts of the city that had been forgotten for two centuries. The air was damp and smelled of copper and ancient dust.
The Catacombs were a labyrinth of brick and bone. As they reached the center, a massive iron door stood waiting, carved with the faces of the twelve Dukes of the Seventh C