Smashes through walls

Her head canted. “Then make me bleed.” She wanted it. A disturbing, alien thought, so dreadful and backward she hardly noticed the blow from Saxby’s tail.
A wall came from nowhere and cracked into her, shattering. A follow-up swipe from the tail’s backlash beat her all the way through the dented cinder blocks and she blew through a second wall, smashing into the third amid spiderweb cracks.
Up lost its meaning. She tasted blood, could feel it seeping from fissures in her skull, and it felt good. All the pressure of her building rage vented from her broken scalp and soaked through her hair. She tossed the fraying braid over her shoulder, speckled blood on the wall, and centered her stare on Saxby.
“Again,” she said.


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