"Tell me you guys heard that too, right?"
Rudith's voice carried over, bouncing a few times off the crevasse walls until it reached their ears.
A few seconds later, her figure came into view around the bend, followed closely by Sarah and Joe. All three of them looked tense.
Far tenser than when they first split up.
Rudith's sword was still drawn, edge coated in dark ant blood, while Joe's breathing was heavier than before.
Sarah's face looked the palest out of the three, though whether that came from overexertion or something else was up for debate; Rohan couldn't tell.
"The Soldier Ant?" Niko asked immediately.
"You mean the one we led away? Dead." Rudith answered curtly. "But we heard that scream the moment we finally took it down. What the hell is going on? Was there more than one Elite in this place?"
Her eyes swept across the group, then past them into the deeper darkness of the nest where the surviving Worker Ants had retreated.
