Lyra's POV
Nexa dropped back from me for a moment. Still in her serpent form. Her large python head jerked up to Zarek, then shook. She hissed—snakelike, and again her jaw was widening to consume me.
Zarek swung his sword at her head. And by sheer chance, she slid through the strike. Immediately, she transformed back into her humanoid form with another ritual of snapping bones as her body moved back into shape.
"What the hell is happening here? And what are you both doing here, Rava and Nexa?" He demanded, his crimson eyes jumping from one demoness to the other, the veins around his eyes tightening. "I thought you had been banished from the underworld, Rava, and you, Nexa. Aren't you supposed to be serving your penance in purgatory? Can't you accept that Draziel can never be with you again after what you did?"
