Return of the Damned

Начало книги

Naull lay bleeding at the feet of the blackguard. She had saved her friends-saved Regdar-from death in the City of Fire by trapping the blackguard with a bead of force. The bead trapped Naull as well.

"That was quite a stunt, wizard," taunted the black-garbed figure standing over her.

Naull said nothing. She wanted to lash back at the horrid, armored woman, but in a few minutes both of them would die anyway. Naull was too badly hurt to spend her last moments in fruitless argument.

The City of Fire slipped steadily back into its pocket dimension. The portal to the Prime Material Plane was closed, and the city could no longer hold its position between the planes.

That wasn't the problem.

With the portal closed, the city would return completely to the Elemental Plane of Fire. Already flames lapped under the door frame and through cracks in the walls. The journey from one plane to the next didn't take long.

Читать дальше →