The frozen jaws swept toward their backs.
Sonya drove her heel into the stone supporting her legs. It folded beneath both demons, dropping them into a shallow trench as Akaza turned and punched upward. Gravity gathered around his knuckles, and the lowest teeth burst apart.
"Move!" he roared.
They slid beneath the broken edge. Behind them, the jaws collided with a crash that shook Frostveil's road. Sonya dragged a slab overhead before the shattered ice could follow them down.
Akaza landed against her shoulder and coughed. Something shifted beneath his ribs.
"Drink a healing elixir," she said sharply.
"You know we only have very few healing elixirs on us."
"Yes, I do. So stop saving them for your corpse."
He glared at her, but a small vial appeared in his hand. His earlier injuries had not justified spending one of the few elixirs he possessed. But these current injuries did.
