Focusing one hundred percent of her faculties on technical skill, Winnipeg whipped through the enormous classroom at galeforce velocity. Cleaving wraiths left and right she exited into a topsy-turvy hallway lined with rattling lockers. A circus of wraiths clogged the immense space, multitudes of generic humanoids and human-headed animals. Lions, serpents, jackals, locusts, hellhounds, a litany of mankind's historic and imagined scourges, bearers of plague and pestilence.

(Chapter 8)