Ex no-selling leg damage

It could burn through concrete like the proverbial hot knife through butter, so searing the old man’s thigh to the bone was no challenge at all. I lost it, and if this had been a normal man, I would’ve killed him, or crippled him for life at best.
As it was, he didn’t notice. His stagger swung a little to the left, but he kept moving toward me.

Excerpt From Ex-Heroes, pg 130
Peter Clines
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