OUT OF THE ASHES
He pointed an angry finger at Kira, fire curling around his hand in fast little flickers that never burned his skin.
“You’re late,” Xander snapped.
Kira didn’t look up from where she was manually trying to open Knight's restraints. “Fuck off. I lost half the blood in my body, and they tried to bury me in an unmarked grave at the bottom of the goddamn mountain. You’re lucky I’m walking.”
“They buried you?” Knight asked, unable to scrape the horror out of his voice completely. He’d experienced a lot of shitty things as a Marine, but getting buried alive was not one of them.