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- The ogre reached for Jensen as if he was going to embrace him, the
- mechanisms in his giant hands snapping open, widening so they could
- envelop his skull and crush it.
- Again, Jensen did the opposite of what his opponent would expect.
- Rather than try to block the attack, he mirrored it. He grabbed at the
- cyborg’s smooth metal skull and dug in his fingers; the brief flash of shock
- on the ogre’s dead-flesh face told him he had wrong-footed the killer.
- He pushed his thumbs into the center of the wide crimson lenses that
- covered the ogre’s eye sockets, and one of the dull plastic disks cracked
- under the pressure. The cyborg clawed at Jensen, trying to drag him off –
- but now he had purchase on his opponent’s right-side optic, and with a
- violent wrenching motion, he tore it out.
- The ogre let out a low, sustained moan that carried over the rumble of
- the train, as the augmented eye dragged with it hair-thin lines of cabling and
- synthetic optic nerves. Bright blood and milky processor fluids drooled
- from the ruined socket.
- For a brief second, fate allowed Jensen the fantasy that he had hobbled
- the ogre – only a second, though. “I see you,” hissed the cyborg,
- swallowing the pain.
- - Deus Ex: Black Light, Chapter 12 pg. 222
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