RUMBLE. RUMBLE. RUMBLE.
"…A hundred what now?" Jessy asked, eyes narrowing as if hoping she'd heard wrong.
"A horde of demons!" Alex chirped far too cheerfully for someone who was coated in infernal goo some seconds ago. "Big ones, small ones, screaming ones, squishy ones, some with way too many legs—and one that looked like a giant baby with knives for teeth! Real creative fellas down there."
"You led them here?" Selena asked, her smile frozen and very polite.
"I wouldn't say led, exactly." Alex scratched his cheek, unconsciously smearing soot covering his fingers across his face like tribal war paint. "I merely made a heroic escape… and those demons followed me."
"You fled upward into us," Raven said flatly, his smile now gone as he rubbed his temples as if trying to massage the stupidity out of the air.