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- Namir pushed in and caught his left arm — his human arm — in a steely vise.
- Saxon cried out as the humerus bone snapped with a wet crunch, agony
- tearing up his nerves in a burning wave. With a savage wrench, Namir
- pulled him aside and threw Saxon at the fuselage of the flyer.
- Unable to arrest his motion, the soldier slammed into the blunt prow of the black
- helo and collapsed to the deck near the body of the dead pilot.
- The pain was blinding, and the impacts from the storm of punches had cast
- scatters of static across the vision field of Saxon's optic implants. He dug
- deep, reaching for a last reserve of strength even as he knew he had
- little left to give.
- The attack at the airport, the fight with Hardesty, and now this...
- Saxon was tapped out, running on vapors.
- He heard Namir coming up behind him. "Time to end this," said the Tyrant
- commander. "No more distractions."
- And then he saw his last chance, lying there before him. He reached for it.
- Anna choked back a gasp as Saxon struggled to his knees, trying to bring
- himself back up from the deck. Namir stood over him, and cast a
- quick, frosty glare toward her and the other Tyrants. "We fix our own
- mistakes," he told them.
- He turned back to meet Saxon as the soldier came up on one knee, releasing
- a roar of pain and effort. Something metallic glittered in his hand
- and he cracked it across Namir's face with brutal intent; a pistol, torn from
- the holster of the dead pilot.
- The mercenary was knocked away, blood streaming across his face. Saxon
- rose, the gun in his machine arm, and he fired three bullets into
- Namir's chest from close range. The shots would have killed a normal man,
- but the Tyrant commander wore a tac vest lined with armor inserts,
- and beneath that he carried dermal shell implants capable of stopping any
- low-caliber rounds that made it through.
- Barrett was shouting as Saxon raised the pistol's muzzle a degree higher and
- laid his aim on Jaron Namir's head.
- The big man's grip on her neck tightened again, enough to draw a strangled
- scream from her lips.
- "Saxon!" bellowed Barrett. "You kill him and the woman dies next!"
- Namir lay in a heap on the deck, scarred and wheezing. He looked up, one
- eye gummed shut, the other the bright lens of an augmented optic.
- "Go on, then," he panted. He coughed up a string of bloody
- spittle.
- - Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, Chapter 15 pgs. 418-419
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