They sprinted, dodging grasping fingers as the floor cracked open behind them like a stone graveyard waking up.
Serena skidded onto a narrow section of solid ground. The whole thing lit up beneath her feet. A gleaming sigil.
She gasped in complete terror, heart pounding. She knew exactly what this was because she'd read about it before.
She had already cleared the threshold before Hyran shouted. "That's a blood trigger! Serena, move out of there!"
She dove off it into a connecting hall just as the plate exploded.
She was already on her feet running at full speed just as metal spikes hammered down behind her in a row so fast they sounded like a zipper closing on a body bag.
The floor screamed, a metallic shriek, and ancient mechanisms fired to life all down the corridor.
Blades, arrows, spears, chains, an entire execution system designed for white wolf blood, shot from the walls in a synchronized sequence of death.
