Little Sister
Now they and the soldiers were walking toward the City of Light, surviving on depleted rations of dark bread and hard cheese, and talking about the weather, cigarettes, and homecoming; anything except what was really on everybody’s mind.
The weapons of Light, so potent against the Enemy, were useless against Wulfstan soldiers and their eyeless slaves. Both were human—or had been human—and sacred electricity had no more effect on them than on ordinary people. Indeed, some of them could apparently pervert Light and turn it into a deadly weapon. Hearing this, Svetlana remembered the blistering rays aimed upon her by the infested soldiers in Loadstone Rock.
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