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Pritkinhard But he had no weapons and one of his aruards hanging off it--who suddenly staggered back, screa, when a fireball erupted around Pritkin’s shielded arm and set their robes ablaze

But a bunch of reinforce inside, despite the fact that the odds were already ridiculous Six of therabbed tabletops to use as shields and jumped Pritkin and the rest ran to help Rosier Which left him able to turn toward his son and lift a hand--

And the fire abruptly went out

Pritkin still had his own shields up, at least for the uards had obviously had enough of trying to drag a reluctant demon lord anywhere, and with the extra numbers, they didn’t have to They just hoisted him up, off the floor, and there were too ht, and he was al I could

And , which was the only place I could think of that uards, ere still trying to use it to coh the roof instead, and onto the ones surrounding Pritkin

Bonus, I thought blankly as they kicked and thrashed and he sprang free, looking a little crazed

But not asin a language I didn’t know And every warrior in the place abruptly stopped And looked up, too

And then caht at us

"Jodor," Casanova breathed

I didn’t say anything, because I was struggling to get on my feet--why, I don’t know It wasn’t like I had ti, or even to for orders, andhit uard

It was--

"Good one," Casanova breathed And started rapid-firing bottles over the bar that ere so head, which had connected with the underside of the bar top, feeling dizzy and confused and really pretty unwell And saw the bartender stooped in a crouched position over by the wall, looking equally be to be crouched in back of

Because we hadn’t moved to the bar; the bar had moved to us But I hadn’t done it And then so across it, and someone else jumped on top of him, and--

"Was that you?" I asked Pritkin, as soood hand wrapped around his father’s throat

"The door," he said, half-strangled, because the same was true in reverse

"No, I did the door," I said, and hit Rosier over the head with one of our dwindling stash of bottles

"That door!" Pritkin rasped, his eyeballs rolling up

Which I took for a bad sign until I looked up, too

And was hit in the face by so hairy

I pulled it off and found a coil of rope in one and Pritkin was looping it around my waist

I tried to help hiht But then, neither did ood"

"Coain And saw hi out of the ceiling above our heads

And then I was being hauled on a fast ride up and out, onto the roof, where I landed on soles that bruised my butt And then froze it, because the Shadowland was always cold But that was okay, because it cleared h that I realized that Pritkin and Casanova were still down there

I scrae of the door, where soh to cause Caleb to strain I grabbed for the end of it, but before I could do anything, Casanova was cli a little disheveled

"What?"

He hauled a bottle of hell juice out of the darkness and set it on the shingles "Only one left"

The building shook as sorabbed his lapels "Where’s Pritkin?"

And then there he was, struggling to pull himself past the doorjaed, even before Caleb could help him, like he was in one hell of a damned hurry And a second later I realized why

When the section of roof I was kneeling on suddenly caved in

I had a split second to see Rosier’s evil face and a forest of shiny swords and the floor all rushing up at me--

And then htat ed that, either Especially one-handed, because the damned bottle was still clutched in the other And then he was screaain, because his feet were slipping on the widening edge

And then Caleb jerked hirabbed me "Run!"

Which, yeah But the cascade of old tiles and half-rotten ceiling beams and moldy plaster that had been the roofin place even as we pelted for the edge Because the precipice was co therabbeddirection but I couldn’t screa down again, fast, but I couldn’t figure out why until--