Bonus Epilogue
Delmira
K ainda screamed in the background just before the portal snapped shut with the last of their power. My skin screamed as the energy from the magic seared me, what felt like, to the bone. Or maybe it came from the claw marks on my arm from the grizzly shifter’s claws that had raked my arm as I’d wrestled Uttu from his grasp. The lights went out, and it felt like I fell endlessly, spinning as I went. All my senses seemed to have disappeared. For the first time in the years since I’d become a hunter, fear crept over me as a gray circle appeared below me. I fell through the opening, watching it snap closed behind me, hitting the ground on my back.
The impact knocked the wind out of me and kicked up the gray, ashy sand I’d landed on. Coughing and wheezing to catch my breath, the fear intensified. No one was ever coming to my rescue from the other side, too risky. I was on my own in Gehenna, essentially behind enemy lines. If there was anyway to get myself out of here, I would find it, and that meant staying alive.
Sitting up, finally able to breathe even if it still hurt a little, I saw truly where I was for the first time. Ash like sand covered the ground as far as the eye could see. Above my head, the dim, cloudless sky appeared fog like. It was unnerving, the sky shouldn’t look like that. The air colder than I’d expected, felt down right chilly. I could smell rain on the breeze that kicked up more of the gray sand. Nothing around me for what looked like miles. The land was mostly flat, with a few small slopes and a handful of large rock groupings in the distance. There wasn’t any sign of anyone or anything that I could see. For the best, my human soul put my life in danger.
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