Chapters 20, 21, 22 and 23 Summary

Chapter 20 - Anna empties her gun into the lead demon Nicodemus, who shrugs off the shots and taunts her. Harry grabs her detonator and threatens to blow up the Shroud, but Nicodemus threatens to kill Anna. Harry throws aside the detonator, and then, even without the focusing power of his blasting rod, throws a surging fire spell at the demons, which knocks them back enough that he and Anna can escape with the Shroud. They crawl through the ventilator system and make it back to Susan, who fights back the boat demon, but is herself fought down by the third snakelike demon, who is in turn fought off by Harry but who refers to a "Fellowship" between himself and Susan. Harry, Susan and Anna manage to escape, Susan refusing to answer Harry's questions about what "Fellowship," not to mention the sudden...