Kaiden looked at Selena on the ridge. Then at the twins flanking her, casual and unhurried, two young men who'd grown up tugging on his sleeve and now stood above him like executioners waiting for gravity to do its work.
The stampede hit the blocked cut behind them and broke around it like water around a dam, monsters piling into the stone, clawing over each other, some of them already turning toward the only living things in the corridor that weren't running.
Luna grabbed his arm. "Move!"
They moved.
Laterally, cutting across the mountainside through a gap between two rock formations that opened onto a steep traverse. The footing was loose stone and scrub, bad terrain for running, worse terrain for fighting, but the only direction that wasn't blocked or full of monsters.
