Chapter 10
They crested the rise overlooking Zion four cycles later and Zeke stumbled to a stop in awe. The great city was a magnificent sprawl of sandstone and gold, spiraling out in a great nautilus. At the center, an impossibly tall obelisk stood like a great icicle of moonstone.
Between them and the massive black wall of the city, a flood of roiling shadow moved in bubbling restlessness on the beautiful grass of the field. The kittim had reached Zion first. Zeke knew they might, and for all he couldn’t see the individual demons, he had no doubt they were ready for war. The sight made Zeke’s stomach drop.
As the angels around him came to a stop on the rise, that roar of sound slammed into him from all sides. It was like he was crushed underwater. It was the angels, making their prese
