Book Six: Chapter 32

Two more transfers later, he saw that she had been summoning swords and stabbing them into the metal ducting to use as handholds. The blades were short like daggers, but had gotten the job done. Mike and Yuki were now only a couple of feet below a cat walk.

It was difficult, but Mike managed to maneuver himself up onto the previous set of blades while holding onto her left wrist. He hooked his arm around the corner rail of the catwalk and then released the magic.

Yuki gasped and went limp beneath him. Mike pulled her up by pushing off the swords with his feet, then slipped his arm around her back once she was high enough.

With a shove, he was able to push her up onto the ledge. Yuki crawled away from the corner as he pulled himself up behind her. His limbs felt like they were on fire, and he lay on the cool metal gasping for air.

“You...shocked...me...” It was both an accusation and a statement of fact.

“Sorry,” he mumbled, feeling sick to his stomach.