“You sure are brave,” said Mitsubachi in a low voice. “It may not be lethal, but this much poison should at least have shut you up by now – maybe I should slip you another, for good measure.”
He aimed his caltrop.
Made a show of it – to terrorize her.
They were about ten feet apart.
Weak as she may be, she was still standing which made it risky to get any closer. Not when she could come at him with the Mantis Talons or whatever else.
But ten feet – was pretty close.
At that range, the Blunderbuzz would murder anybody. If he did not exercise the utmost caution and restraint, the caltrop was liable to blow straight through her belly.

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