Blitzed

‘Helot Tertius. Shoot me.’
Tyberia didn’t hesitate as I had. She leveled her shotgun and fired – or she would have done, had Amadeus not slapped the barrel aside in a blur of motion and thrown her to the floor. The back of her head struck the deck with a jarring smack.
She’d moved fast, faster than any unaugmented human could possibly move, yet Amadeus stood above her, his boot on her throat.

Spear of the Emperor