Chapter 245

THE BLUE GOO SMELLED FOUL, a sickly sweet you could almost taste, with an underlying tang of acid and decomposition.

'Phew,' Sian exclaimed, blocking her nose when they crept past the mess left over from the empty tanks. 'I understand why Cat smashed them, but she could have thought of us behind her.'

No one else said a word and Daron, his face tense, kept a tight hold on her hand. The gruesome display of the previous Elementals chilled them all, and then to find the plaques on the bases of the shattered tanks; Sian shuddered.

Not happening, she thought, we don't belong in that psychopath's private collection.

Rumal made a quiet sound and Daron dragged Sian over there, Sabyn and Loi right behind them. Kassie pointed at the open door through which they could see a stairwell, covered with the charred bodies of strange pale creatures. Sian stared at the talons and weirdly oversized jaws of the otherwise fine boned creatures and gingerly stepped over another, climbing the stairs behind