Chapter 123
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle.
It takes a hero to be one of those men
Who goes into battle.
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– H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
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ABADDON
Abaddon's men pulled their pulse rifles and aimed them at the lizards.
"There's Ba'al Zebub!" Lucifer shouted.
The lizards turned their backs and assumed a two-line defensive formation, not aimed at them, but at the doorway they'd all just run through. Beneath their feet, the Prince of Tyre's deck trembled like an earthquake.
"Hold your fire," Abaddon ordered.
The lizards opened fire into the hallway they'd just come from. They all fell back as a gore-splattered figure stalked in, its wings spread wide, wielding a crimson sword. On either side of it, dark shapes ran like lionesses on the hunt, neither solid nor transp
