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"Ha!" He turned away and handed his sword to Falcon while he took off his shirt "We’ll see"
I hoped I could handle it So far, I’d only used wooden swords--no one being brave enough to stick sharp metal in my hands and let me come at them And this was heavier and shaped differently than the wooden ones--the handle thicker, a little slippery inbeside the four knights, wearing a srin, and said, "Okay, Ara, take coround and bentht tilt inward
"Feet further apart" Mike pointed to s; I shifted them
"Chin up" Falcon walked over and stood behind uard," Blade said in his slish accent as he stood beside Mike and pointed his sword at , I scanned the scene; three men in front of me, one to the side, and one I could feel behindrinned "You heard her, boys"
A quicktiers of the hand gripping a sword, felt the cut of the blade through the lint of exciteed before the blade reached et bending under it--feeling the brush of wind from its crisp"She’s fast, I’ll give her that"
Tiht to dodge the cut of a blade co Twoa fist on the ground to balancea cut that would’ve openedhit the floor as ot tothe blade of another As I spun to an assault fro the flesh in a clean slice, forcing a high-pitched squeal from the back of ut turning until the wound tingled, knitting back together
"Holy shit," Quaid said
The knights were taken aback for only a breath more, then ran in from all four sides; my forearm split open where it shot up to shield ainst Quaid’s, and all of a sudden,ash as it tried to heal
"Get off me!"
Quaid stood at my brow, his sword to my throat "Yield?"
"In your dreahihts on uard drop, watching Mike stu the condition offelt like a new victory, but Falcon was on it; he rolled his shoulder into the ground, legs over head, and ca ripped the handle with both hands, angling it against each of his strikes, until Ryder thrust his in a straight jab, right between Falcon’s and round
They moved in then Falcon kickedby thethis But the defeatshift inhad already been calculated and was just waiting for that last cog It filled --a rush, like excite charge de a bullet of electricity into Falcon’s chest as he ran in for the kill; he stopped dead, as if he’d hit an invisible pane of glass--his ar once before he shot backward, like a rope pulled hi hi of blue at Blade, then turned at the shoulder to warn the knights behind round as they dropped their swords, held up their hands and yelled, "Yield"
My winning so ho his hands "Much better, Ara Much, much better"
"Yes, simply marvellous," a loud, humour-filled voice announced from the side of the room
"Arthur" I turned around and smiled as he walked toward us
"Bravo, Amara I see the ru for the electricity to recede, but my body obviously still felt under threat
"You’re okay, my dear" Arthur carefully touchedthe blue light with it
"Ur, Chief?" Blade tapped Mike’s shoulder
"Dear God," Arthur said, his panicked eyes on the back wall
Mike moved as I spun around to see Falcon, sluut dropped
Mike and Arthur got to his side first I fell in cluht’s bloodied chest "Did I…did I kill hi up his sleeves
Mike grabbed the knight by the shoulders and laid hi crossed hands down firht below a ht, I sunk my teeth into his arm, and the instant his skin broke under the the sides of h each tiny tastebud, searing everything in their path The watering response of ue made the blood mix into a thinner liquid, which slipped easily past ht knots
"I got a pulse!" Mike said
I released round as I fell back onit fros and screaet it off, but I was all too conscious of the fact that everyone in the roo his sweaty shirt around my face and down my chest where the blood dribbled "Your ?"
I looked up into eyes of concern, and realised only then that I was crying
"Coet you some blood to wash out the taste"
An arm, with the sleeve rolled up to reveal clear veins, appeared in front of my lips "Your Majesty, drink," Arthur said kindly
"Oh, hell no" Mike pushed his arrowled, standing face to face with Mike "I do not care for your fears of the lust she will feel while drinking, Michael, I care that that poor girl be eased of the burning she is suffering Now lethim down, and as soon as he pierced his vein with his nail and the srabbed Arthur’s arm