COLD STEEL, BLEEDING HEARTS
Still, he wouldn’t back down.
“I can’t!” Maya gasped. Her teeth chattered from the cold that seemed to come from inside her bones. “If I let go, the ship crashes and kills everyone. If I hold on, the… the things inside the ship… get out!”
Overhead, the sky was a mess—no blue left, just swirling silver and black. Winged shapes poured out of the crack in the ship, the Prisoners of the Dark. They looked like a swarm of angry bees, all smoke and hard edges, no faces. They dove straight for the Council’s silver guardians. The sound was awful, like a thousand mirrors shattering.