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land on but snow. We tumbled through the powder and came to rest against a shelf of rocks hanging over a slope so steep it made my pounding heart miss a few beats.
"Keep your concentration, Justin!" Elyssa grabbed my arms and snapped her fingers in my face. "Let me drive, okay?"
I pushed to my feet. Took a deep breath. "I can do this." I channeled another board beneath my feet. She hopped on in front and I grabbed her waist.
Daskar appeared overhead and spotted our black uniforms against the white almost immediately. Elyssa shoved off and took us over the rocky shelf and into a long fall to a forty-five-degree decline.
I held back a cry of terror and concentrated on maintaining the snowboard. We hit the snow and hurtled down the slope so fast, my eyes watered. Deadly blasts of Murk hammered the mountain behind and around us. It took every ounce of concentration I had to keep channeling the shield while moving so fast.
Elyssa expertly guided the snowboard around rocks and over small cliffs, each time finding a line in the snow that would guide us into the forest far below. We hit a ramp and flew through the air before landing on a narrow cliff at the edge of a ravine.
"Holy mother!" Elyssa whipped the board right, leaning hard to dig the edge into the powder. We skimmed the ledge, the Murk throwing sparks against the rock. The dark gorge below gaped like an open maw, ready to consume a meager meal. Wind whistled in my ears. Snow and ice pelted my face. My butt cheeks clenched tight and I barely maintained the pattern of the snowboard. If I lost the weave now, we'd tumble to our doom.
Despite the armor, my hands were freezing and I felt snot forming icicles on my nose. I spotted another issue looming ahead. The ledge narrowed to only a few inches wide.
I tightened my grip on Elyssa's waist. "Uh, babe?"
"I see it." She jabbed a finger right where a crack in the cliff wall formed a narrow tunnel. "Duck!"
I bent my knees just in time to avoid decapitation. Wind howled through the tunnel, propelling us faster and faster. We shot from the other side and hit a wide open slope. The Daskar reappeared overhead shortly after and resumed their attacks. Snow exploded in front of us leaving us blind for an instant.
A deep rumble vibrated me all the way down to the bones. I wiped the powder from my eyes and looked back. A tsunami of snow cascaded down the slope after us. "Avalanche!" I shouted.
Elyssa looked back at the wall of doom rushing after us. "Can you shield us?"
"Maybe." I couldn't even begin to calculate the immense power my barrier would have to withstand. It was all I could do to keep the shield beneath our feet. "Can't we outrun it?"
"I don't think so." Elyssa looked at the great white plain before us and shook her head. "We've got another problem."
"Another problem?" I peered forward and saw what she meant. The slope vanished over a cliff. It might be a small drop off to another slope or it might be thousand feet to the ground.
"Please tell me you have an idea." Elyssa gripped my hands still tight around her waist. "We're running out of mountain."
We had only one chance but it would require some top-notch channeling on my part. I fortified my confidence with a deep breath. "Go with the flow, babe. I got you."
That was all I needed to tell her. She lowered her head against the biting wind and we barreled toward the Devil's mouth with Hell right on our heels. The Daskar circled overhead like vultures, eager to watch us die so they could pick at our bones and take them home to their master. Somehow, I had to make them believe we died, or else they'd swoop in and finish us off.
We reached the end of the line and leapt off the cliff. The only thing between us and the valley below was open air and the promise of death. I released the channel for the snowboard. It vanished in a puff of ultraviolet mist. Holding Elyssa by the waist, I adjusted our angle of descent. Gravity wrapped us in its merciless embrace and
"Keep your concentration, Justin!" Elyssa grabbed my arms and snapped her fingers in my face. "Let me drive, okay?"
I pushed to my feet. Took a deep breath. "I can do this." I channeled another board beneath my feet. She hopped on in front and I grabbed her waist.
Daskar appeared overhead and spotted our black uniforms against the white almost immediately. Elyssa shoved off and took us over the rocky shelf and into a long fall to a forty-five-degree decline.
I held back a cry of terror and concentrated on maintaining the snowboard. We hit the snow and hurtled down the slope so fast, my eyes watered. Deadly blasts of Murk hammered the mountain behind and around us. It took every ounce of concentration I had to keep channeling the shield while moving so fast.
Elyssa expertly guided the snowboard around rocks and over small cliffs, each time finding a line in the snow that would guide us into the forest far below. We hit a ramp and flew through the air before landing on a narrow cliff at the edge of a ravine.
"Holy mother!" Elyssa whipped the board right, leaning hard to dig the edge into the powder. We skimmed the ledge, the Murk throwing sparks against the rock. The dark gorge below gaped like an open maw, ready to consume a meager meal. Wind whistled in my ears. Snow and ice pelted my face. My butt cheeks clenched tight and I barely maintained the pattern of the snowboard. If I lost the weave now, we'd tumble to our doom.
Despite the armor, my hands were freezing and I felt snot forming icicles on my nose. I spotted another issue looming ahead. The ledge narrowed to only a few inches wide.
I tightened my grip on Elyssa's waist. "Uh, babe?"
"I see it." She jabbed a finger right where a crack in the cliff wall formed a narrow tunnel. "Duck!"
I bent my knees just in time to avoid decapitation. Wind howled through the tunnel, propelling us faster and faster. We shot from the other side and hit a wide open slope. The Daskar reappeared overhead shortly after and resumed their attacks. Snow exploded in front of us leaving us blind for an instant.
A deep rumble vibrated me all the way down to the bones. I wiped the powder from my eyes and looked back. A tsunami of snow cascaded down the slope after us. "Avalanche!" I shouted.
Elyssa looked back at the wall of doom rushing after us. "Can you shield us?"
"Maybe." I couldn't even begin to calculate the immense power my barrier would have to withstand. It was all I could do to keep the shield beneath our feet. "Can't we outrun it?"
"I don't think so." Elyssa looked at the great white plain before us and shook her head. "We've got another problem."
"Another problem?" I peered forward and saw what she meant. The slope vanished over a cliff. It might be a small drop off to another slope or it might be thousand feet to the ground.
"Please tell me you have an idea." Elyssa gripped my hands still tight around her waist. "We're running out of mountain."
We had only one chance but it would require some top-notch channeling on my part. I fortified my confidence with a deep breath. "Go with the flow, babe. I got you."
That was all I needed to tell her. She lowered her head against the biting wind and we barreled toward the Devil's mouth with Hell right on our heels. The Daskar circled overhead like vultures, eager to watch us die so they could pick at our bones and take them home to their master. Somehow, I had to make them believe we died, or else they'd swoop in and finish us off.
We reached the end of the line and leapt off the cliff. The only thing between us and the valley below was open air and the promise of death. I released the channel for the snowboard. It vanished in a puff of ultraviolet mist. Holding Elyssa by the waist, I adjusted our angle of descent. Gravity wrapped us in its merciless embrace and
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