They moved like a perfectly synchronized team because survival demanded it, but their mutual hatred still burned brightly.
"You're going too slow," Meriel yelled, cutting a falling gargoyle in half.
"Speed this slide up, or we are both dead."
"Build your own magic bridge if you do not like mine," Kai snapped back.
Purposely forming a sharp bump of ice right under Meriel's foot, Kai waited to see him stumble.
"Ah-"
Meriel slipped and nearly fell off the edge of the slide, but he caught himself at the last possible second by stabbing his sword into the ice.
"Watch your step," Kai offered with a fake smile.
"It is very slippery today."
Recovering his footing, Meriel immediately kicked a chunk of broken stone straight at Kai's head.
Kai ducked under the flying rock, letting it smash harmlessly against the tunnel wall.
"My foot slipped," Meriel lied smoothly.
'He is insufferable,' Kai thought, pouring more freezing water onto the path ahead.
'I should kill this fucker.'
