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A very good killer can string together a set of three ranature As one of the top fifty with a blade in the Core, Cassius could do five I once saw Lorn do eight Ajax does eight It isn’t to say he’s as good as Lorn, but he is as fast; and fighting hied into cold water
Pure shock
I don’t really see the moves at this point Even Gold eyes can’t track blades this fast By the time he flips down to bar my way to the prison block, I’m nicked three ti stick as the Love Knight takes the opportunity to pair up with hi stance Alexandar liroans from behind us as she stumbles to join us
The two parties stare each other down in the narrow corridor Everyone bleeds Come on, Rhonna I don’t want to pay this toll yet
“I hoped it would be like this,” Ajax says frorandfather’s “First you Then I work my way down the food chain Your wife Your shadow Your Bellona”
As ht hands by killing her best two knights, asI can’t handle, dying here doesn’t end the war
I hail Rhonna “Pup Two, status?” I say without taking my eyes off Ajax
“Package is wrapped Present deposited Attaching cord now Char, anytime, please”
“Co frisky out here Two destroyers and four torches inbound”
“Popping off Three, two, one”
I turn fro I had hoped hts They all want to be the one who takes h But with the knights the Core has these days, you always buy insurance
While I drew their eyes, Rhonna’s starShell landed on the hull beyond the prison block and welded through to steal Orion from behind their backs
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuum
The aft section of the ship vaporizes behind Ajax and the Love Knight as Rhonna’s bomb detonates A maw to space opens and the pressure of the ship rips them out into vacuu’s spinning, and all we can do is hold on to one another I see flashes of the oncomi
ng eneh the darkness, and the Necromancer races toward us Just when I think it will hit us, it tips on its nose, inverts, and inhales us into its back-facing garage The doors seal instantly and we ricochet like netically to the floor with ar as if it were a baby