Mr. Bloodrobe stood alone in the empty operating room.
Just one second ago, he had seen Aiden Galahad and his witch companion, Tony Dodge holding his father's corpse, and even the mercury alloy golem—all conscious entities in the room besides himself—had opened a door behind them, into a pitch-black passage.
In the blink of an eye, they were sucked into that door and vanished from the spot.
Mr. Bloodrobe could still sense them, not too far away, still within the research institute nestled in the belly of the mountain. He turned toward the operating room's steel door and heard a thunderous crash coming from afar.
After their shift, they destroyed the passage; chasing them from here was now impossible, and the trick of using "sacrifice" to exchange bodies couldn't be used in succession either.
