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Dismembers Fomor

Jul 24th, 2022
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  1. Butters drew my hands to the spot where I’d been punched and pressed them down. “Hold them here, Harry. Keep up the pressure. I’ll be right back.”
  2. And then the little guy stood up, his limbs shaking, his face ashen, and put himself between me and a goddamned Titan.
  3. I felt my teeth stretch into a wolf’s smile. Hell. If Butters could do that, I could do my part. It was hard. But I drew in enough breath and focused my will, infusing my voice with Power.
  4. “Titania,” I wheezed. “I summon thee.”
  5. Maybe half a dozen of the armored foot soldiers around Ethniu, confused and looking for direction, sensed her intent and went flying forward like hounds on a trail.
  6. I labored for another breath, and to hold my hands where Butters had put them.
  7. Butters lifted Fidelacchius and brought the blade to life in a buzz of angelic choral fury.
  8. “Titania!” I rasped, louder. The Name echoed weirdly, or it seemed that way to me. “I summon thee!”
  9. The first of the heavily armored ape-armed troopers reached Butters.
  10. And the little guy went full Jedi on his ass.
  11. Fidelacchius sliced the trooper’s weapon in half and took part of the arm with it. A second swing split the trooper’s heavy shield in half with the rest of him, and the pieces fell in separate directions. The other five hesitated—and Butters went up the middle like a human Cuisinart, striking down three more in less time than it would have taken to call his name.
  12. Ethniu strode closer, shouting something in a tongue I did not understand, seized the corpse of one of my volunteers from the earlier engagement by the calf, and flung it overhand at Butters and his remaining opponents, smashing all three of them out of her way.
  13. But the little guy had bought me time enough.
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  15. Battle ground Chapter 29, Page 279
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  18. Butters hit the entire group like a tornado—absolute, deadly, and bizarrely selective. The angelic chorus around Fidelacchius rose to an exultant crescendo as the weapon whirled and struck down everyone who got in our path—absolutely everyone.
  19. When the Sword of Faith struck the soldiers of the Fomor, the slaves of the Titan’s will, it did so with gruesome, precisely egalitarian effect, cleaving armor and weapon and flesh with equal precision and disdain. And where it struck the defenders of the city, that same weapon swept away grime from eyes, cleared muck from ears, and burned away some of the environment hampering our allies, leaving the ground steadier under their feet.
  20. Butters, flowing with the grace of absolute concentration, struck what I presumed to be a friendly with the Sword, shattering the bent and stricken helmet clear off the head of what turned out to be a rather unremarkable-looking young woman with medium brown skin and the arched cheekbones and angular eyes of a native of the far northwest of North America, her face twisted with utter terror—and I saw it when the Sword passed, and its light burned that fear out of her. She blinked twice, as if waking up from a nap that had been plagued with a bad dream, set her jaw, and rose with her weapon in her hand.
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  22. Battle Ground Chapter 32, Page 302-301
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