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"Not quite" The creature knocked into her This tiht before he hit and arched away, lashing out with a kick The strange energy dispersed all around her, confusing her, blocked everything about his approach except for a tiny, tiny spark of red

"Almost … have you," she murmured and honed her warrior senses to any movement within arm's reach She kept an eye out for the spark

"Do you?"

Before she coulddraped around her neck and yanked her off her feet

Ashley gasped and grabbed at the noose around her neck, gripping it before the force of the sudden ascent could snap her spine The dilow of a vauessed it was Hector

She swung her legs and used all her strength to haul her body upwards, against gravity Ashley wrapped one leg around the rope holding her and used it to support her weight She sucked in deep breaths, the rope burning the soft skin of her throat Shifting until she was stable, she took a moment to catch her breath and assess her options She dropped one of the batons and listened for how long it took to hit the ground

The faint clatter drew a griuaranteed broken leg or ar back for one of the hidden knives, she yanked it free and slid it between her neck and the rope She h it The noose fell away frorabbed the frayed end with one hand

"Still co for me, Natural?" called a voice froht down," she retorted Ashley hauled herself up "Y'all did all this for little ole erous opponent is taken out first"

Ahts went to Charles She didn't like vaularly But …

I kinda do like Charles And he was Jonny's second, which meant the Black God trusted hi slaughtered by the saue vamps that had her brother

"I appreciate the sentian to clied to reach a beam at the top of the factory "See? Cakewalk"

The vaenerated some sort of field, one that addled her warrior senses and made it almost impossible to track where he really was But from above, he was completely exposed at the center of his field