Bab 31: Stepping Into Hell

Three Abominations larvae were shambling towards them, and Maeve deliberately slowed down and allowed Rowan to take the lead, he knew this was her way of teaching him.

Learn by doing. Rowan would have it no other way.

Seeing these monsters ahead, he leaned towards them. They were all women in the loosest sense of the word—Nothing about them was human anymore. They were the favored gender for the larvae of Abominations.

He would have felt hesitation to kill these women warped by the touch of the Abominations. But it had been studied and there was proof that the mind was the first to die when you were infected by an Abomination. You simply become a conduit to the will of the Core.

The monstrous babies tied to the women's chests made low crooning sounds like birds, yet their eyes were filled with darkness and bloodlust.

His Spatial Sight made it possible to keep perfect track of everything around him, and he let his intuition take over.