Frozen Shadows Chapter 4 Preview "Hard to Believe"

It is in this chapter I break my warning that "our King spends 99% of the story as a Sombra-cicle, so don't expect he's going to be running around doing things". In other words, he dominates this next part.

I just can't help but write him into everything I put up online, let's face it!

Here's your preview:

A peculiar sound split the air around them – a sort of wheezing, groaning noise. Feeling it jangle his new sense of time, he snarled. Instinctively, Sombra threw a shield between them and the crystal coated area, leaving an area open ahead only big enough to flee through. “Run!” the King roared, breaking into a full gallop across the rest of the way out.

“What is that noise?” Blade asked as they ran.

“Later!” Sombra shouted, galloping faster. The crystal dust lining the sides of the corridor began to tremble as a shadowy image of a tall, blue box came faintly into existence back the way they came. The way none were looking.

The box's attempt at arrival in the time zone disturbed the very fabric of frozen time around them. Sombra cursed, feeling it wrest control of his shield spell from him as it tore apart the laws of local magic. Desperately, he turned to shadow, grabbed Iron Blade and the closest guards in his grip and hurtled through the remaining space in an instant!

Making it out just as the spell failed and crystal dust started falling in their wake, the King of Shadows blocked the exit with another field, returned to pony form again and released those he had just saved.

All but the last guard made it out, the stallion's backside being dusted by the first bits of falling crystal dust...