Chapter 664
On the top floor, they stopped when the hallway dead-ended at a staircase. The light from a skylight was thankfully too weak to hurt them. For now.
Verchiel mounted the stairs to examine the door at the top. He frowned at the broken lock, then cautiously opened it. Outside a roof was being slowly lit by the dawn. Some of the light was blocked by the neighboring buildings and a long awning like structure. Katelina could see a penthouse, its windows like empty eye sockets.
Verchiel shrugged her off in a pool of shade thrown by the stairwell's enclosure. "Stay here. I'll be right back."
He zipped away, then returned, crouching quickly in the shadows. "I don't know if Ark is that fast, but they're already putting up road blocks and evacuating people. I don't see Lilith or Samael, only two holes in the building across the street. Hopefully they can get most of the humans out before anything revealing happens."
"Did you see Jorick?"
"No. I'm going to look again. Stay here."