The sound of High Elder Morcant's fingers snapping wasn't loud, but it echoed like a gunshot in the ruined vault.
Instantly, the pristine white marble beneath their boots gave a sickening, wet groan. The stone didn't crack; it simply ceased to be solid. In a matter of seconds, the entire floor of the Falcon's Roost dissolved into a violently boiling, toxic pool of pitch black acid.
"Get off the floor!" Lucien roared, grabbing Elara by the waist and hoisting her onto the massive silver desk in the center of the room.
Megan and Varic scrambled up the tall stone pillars, while Kael and Talia dragged themselves onto the edge of the desk. The acid hissed furiously, chewing into the metal legs of the furniture and filling the room with a thick, suffocating smoke that smelled of burning copper and sulfur.
"Wait, where's Raven?" Darius yelled, his good arm gripping the edge of the desk.
Through the thick black smoke, they saw him.
