Free for five days starting 8/05/2012
I ripped the Other from its perch but its free foot lashed out at me and caught me flush on the side of my jaw. Even as we fell a hiss of pain momentarily drew my attention to the roof line of the home adjoining Brid's, and I was in time to see the blood splashed visage of one of the Others falling back from the roofs edge. It had turned to see what would become of its companion, possibly even to come to its aid, and had found itself an easy target for one of Sonafi's home-made thrown missiles. Even as I fell towards the ground, still fiercely gripping the ankle of the Other I had pounced upon on the wall, I heard the thump of the one Sonafi had attacked as it fell and the thrashing as it kicked out its death throes. It would not survive.
As we fell the creature twisted and swiveled upon me, its tiny mouth twisted into the rictus of hatred with which I was so familiar with the Others. In its right hand was a shiny object. The moonlight glinted momentarily from its reflective surface. A small blade. As it turned on me, its right-hand came across its body, the blade plunging at my face. I slapped it aside in mid-strike, its speed like that of an uncoiling spring, but the being was many times my juvenile and I was never in any real danger. The blade went spinning away out of his hand and bounced against the wall before vanishing into the night. This all at hyper acceleration. We had barely even begun to fall. The velocity generated by gravity miniscule compared to the capabilities of both Vampire and Others. We seemed to fall in slow motion.
As we fell the creature twisted and swiveled upon me, its tiny mouth twisted into the rictus of hatred with which I was so familiar with the Others. In its right hand was a shiny object. The moonlight glinted momentarily from its reflective surface. A small blade. As it turned on me, its right-hand came across its body, the blade plunging at my face. I slapped it aside in mid-strike, its speed like that of an uncoiling spring, but the being was many times my juvenile and I was never in any real danger. The blade went spinning away out of his hand and bounced against the wall before vanishing into the night. This all at hyper acceleration. We had barely even begun to fall. The velocity generated by gravity miniscule compared to the capabilities of both Vampire and Others. We seemed to fall in slow motion.
