Chapter 56: The Earth Shakes

Laura took another step backward, barely parrying the Urt's pitted blade. Sweat dripped down her brow, threatening to cloud her vision. The Urts just kept coming, an endless green mass stretching out in a spiral down the staircase. She caught the Urt's next swing on her left dagger and skewered his eye socket with the right. Swiftly, she drew her blade out and bashed the howling fiend on the side of its head, sending it tumbling over. Keep going. *Don't let them past you.*

The next Urt was already scrambling up, sword swinging wildly. Laura took another step back... and gasped as she felt the top of her head collide with stone. She'd been pushed back to the top. There was nowhere left to run.

Desperately, she raised her daggers high and caught the Urt's sword between them, forcing it back into its own head. She was out of room. There was nowhere to run, and no time to escape up the trapdoor. There was only stand and die.