Chapter 629

• Demons ate resonance. Hellbeasts, like souls, ate and survived on essence directly. Souls carried resonance and essence, and so did demons, but hellbeasts only carried essence. It was a fucked up food chain, where hellbeasts were free to attack demons and eat them, but not the other way around. And they knew it, too, like predators in the wild who knew they could eat anyone and anything, even each other if they wanted. Apparently, they were willing to cooperate now, to kill the demons living on top of their den.
• "Whatever you do," Mia said, "don't use your fire breath."
• Vin growled back at her. He probably wasn't in any condition to go Godzilla on the tunnel, but then again, he'd used his breath when Mia had freed him, and he'd only had Zel's heart for food. Better to not risk it.