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out in the gloomy darkness of the
courtyard, and almost made Kara smile. “We’re going to bring the
gate down and lock them in. Everyone’s safe outside. You’re the
only one left. Come on!”
    Jenny turned on her heels and ran back
towards the gatehouse. Kara ran closely behind. The frantic screams
and dull thud of fists hitting flesh tapered off behind them. The
gateway loomed up ahead, and Kara could see shadows moving beyond
the gate. They were almost there.
    Then something bright illuminated the
darkness for a moment and went out.
    Kara halted.
    Jenny stopped short and turned around.
“Kara, what are you doing? We have to go. We’ll all get killed if
we stay any longer. This is crazy!” She pulled at Kara’s
arm.
    Kara gently peeled her friend’s
fingers from her arm. “There’s something I have to do first—bring
the gate down if I’m not back in sixty seconds.”
    “ Kara! No!”
    Kara turned and ran back towards the
angry mob.
    As she rushed back ignoring Jenny’s
pleads, a sudden spell of dizziness gushed through her body. Her
legs bucked and she fell on her knees hard. Flailing arms reached
out and grabbed her. Sticks probed, and something hard hit her on
the side of the head. A fork perforated her thigh just as stinging
pain erupted in her back. Rough hands pulled at her jacket and
pinned her arms back. With a surge of strength she wiggled her arms
free, only to be punched in the gut several times by large boots.
Her face hit the ground. The smell of earth filled her nose.
Distorted faces plagued her vision. Her screams were drowned under
the wails of the crazed mortals. Rough hands groped her arms and
legs. They pulled with enormous strength. They were going to rip
her apart. Lilith was right. She would die in the hands of those
she was sworn to protect.
    Kara closed her eyes.
    With a blast of golden light, Kara’s
body was aflame in a shower of golden brilliance. The mortals
hissed and backed away, maddened with fear.
    Glowing like a sun, Kara searched
above the crazed mortals and around the courtyard . . .
    She saw Ranab and the five brilliant
white spheres bouncing in the net on his shoulders. The souls were
her priority. If she couldn’t save the mortals, she could at least
save the souls.
    Kara dashed across the courtyard. She
couldn’t feel the poison from the death blade anymore; she felt
free. She dodged the men and women who scurried away from her
golden body like rats.
    Ranab kicked out furiously at the pack
of wild mortals who were attacking him from all sides.
    Kara reached out for the
net.
    Ranab opened his mouth and stared
wild-eyed at Kara.
    “ Thanks, I’ll take that.”
In a flash, Kara grabbed the net, turned on her heel, and rocketed
back towards the gatehouse.
    Ranab pushed his way through a wall of
mortals. His long black coat rippled behind him like a black wave.
He raised his blade and shouted.
    “ You’re mine, angel. Don’t
let her get away! Get her! I want that soul!”
    Kara bolted back towards the
gatehouse. The souls bounced gently against her back.
    Ranab jumped in front of her,
brandishing his blade. A wicked grin spread over his white face.
“You’re not going anywhere. Your soul is mine!” With a sinister
gleam in his eye, he swung a powerful blow towards Kara’s head. She
parried to the side, grabbed a fistful of his jacket, pulled it
over his head, and kicked him hard in the knee. He teetered and
went down like a rock.
    Kara was already on the
move.
    Ranab threw his jacket to the ground.
“Stop her! I want that soul! Don’t let her get away you
fools!”
    Kara leapt over the oncoming Seirs and
charged towards the gatehouse.
    David stood by the interior wall of
the main entrance. A large metal lattice grille hung dangerously
above him. Metal chains from the portcullis curled around a winch
mounted on the internal wall four feet above his head. He grasped
the metal winch and waited.
    “ Kara, they’re right behind
you. Floor it!” shouted