Accidental Surrogate for Alpha
I successfully block his exit, my own body tensed for any action, as Roger lowers his snarling face to the priests, warning him with body if not with words to stay still –
But the priest bares his own teeth and angles his hand up, pointed towards Roger’s chest, and then he says some archaic word –
And there is a blast of light, of heat, of fire that blinds me, makes me turn my head away for a split second before I hear a yelp of fear and pain. And as I snap my face back towards the priest I see Roger soaring upwards through the air, his back and shoulders slamming into the low sewer ceiling before gravity pulls him back down –
But the priest is fast –
Before Roger’s body can fall back down o