I dove between the golden stalks of wheat just as the demon’s scorpion tail sliced over my head. Muscle memory had me tucking and rolling out of the way, dodging each strike. I cursed and threw my magic into the scorpion-demon’s body. It hissed and flew head over tail away from me. But there were too many. The bright, cloudless blue sky above us was offensive. How dare demons attack on a beautiful day like this.

Asmodeus cackled like he’d just heard my thoughts. Knowing him, he might have. I had no idea where he was now, and his laugh seemed to move between the wheat stalks like snakes. There was a flash of rainbow over my head from the left, so I pushed to my feet and ran toward Tegan. If there was ever someone to fight near, it was her. The girl was a menace. Everest was here somewhere but he kept fighting from the shadows, which was great strategy, except my heart couldn’t handle the anxiety.

Tegan was farther than I realized but I was already running for her. I felt my Coven-mates around me, yet I only saw flashes of them before they were lost to the wheat. I had no idea where we were, but this wheat field seemed to stretch on forever in every direction. And they were tall too, up to my shoulders or higher in some spots. It was nothing but flat land and blue skies. Sure, there were no humans around but there wasn’t anything else either. Nothing for us to use as a shield. Savannah ran by me holding a dead scorpion-demon’s body as a shield.

Someone gasped to my right. I glanced toward it and found Willow’s eyes wide as she watched Savannah. She then dove for the ground. I turned back to the field ahead of me. My pulse was flying as I ran. My life had suddenly become a scene from the Jurassic Park movie when they were running through that field and all they saw were the tails of the velociraptors flicking back and forth.