Ember held up her knife, my blood dripping down the blade. She’d sliced a three-inch gash in the vein.
“Ember!” I clutched my wrist. Blood flowed freely through my fingers. “Wh…why?”

Sentinel

I pulled them away from the doorway. “We have to get out of the house!” 
As I said the words, bullets tore through the walls and windows. Our room was already engulfed in flames. Outside, the terrified screams of women and children mixed with the angry yells of men.

Sentinel