Death's Avatar (The Descent Series) by S.M. Reine Page A

heavy
metallic thumps, and my arms were free again.
    Jesus, I’d ripped the extensions right off
the chair! How did that happen?
    I pulled my arms in close to my chest, and
PJ ran her hands through my hair. She rocked me like a child.
    “Shh…it’s gonna be fine, Dree. Just take
some deep breaths.”
    PJ eventually coaxed me into the next exam
room and I was coherent enough to let them sedate me before they
took blood. It wasn’t what I’d call a unanimous decision.
    “It’s necessary, David,” one doctor said.
“Just do it.”
    “She’s barely a hundred pounds! Too much
could kill her,” the other protested.
    They probably thought they were being
discreet, talking a good hundred feet from my room. I heard them
just fine. It didn’t seem strange at the time.
    Finally, they came back. I didn’t have time
to react to the first prick before my world went black.
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Glossary
    aspis : Greek for “shield.” A witch bound to
the service of a kopis as his protector.
    centuria : A term historically used by the
Roman army to indicate units of 100 men. Also called a
“century.”
    Earth-bound : Demons that were born in Hell
but have lived so long on Earth that they could no longer survive
on the infernal planes.
    Gray : Entities with mixed human/demon
heritage. There are also Gray with angelic parentage, although they
are much less common.
    hellborn : Demons that were bred and live in
Hell.
    kopis : Greek for “sword.” Also indicates a
human imbued with better-than-average strength, an extrasensory
perception of supernatural creatures, and the responsibility of
policing relations between Heaven, Hell, and Earth.
    undercity : Demonic settlements on Earth,
usually positioned beneath human cities.
    Warrens : The undercity and tunnel system
built from mines beneath California, Nevada, and Arizona.