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Date Posted: 20:13:44 01/28/02 Mon
Author: Isobel and Barry
Subject: The shadow "nose"
In reply to: Saras 's message, "Woah I'm cool." on 15:38:00 01/28/02 Mon

Isobel felt very cross. She had just begun to have some light-hearted fun with Rowan and Tia when all hell broke loose. Suddenly Ravin was yelling about assassins and she dove for her weapons, grabbing Muerte off her cloak just as an assassin fell from the tree nearest her, dead. Ravin was handy with his daggers, she thought approvingly.

She ignored the itching of the sand that had stuck to her wet skin as her eyes searched the tops of the other trees. She had just bent down to retrieve her sword when suddenly several assassins simply toppled from the trees and fell to the ground, stunned.

She took the opportunity to leap onto the nearest one, her heel stomping into the man's belly before she plunged her sword downward into his chest with both hands. She yanked her sword out and ran toward another assassin, but he had had time to recover and met her attack with sword drawn. He had a terrible grin on his face and Isobel whispered a prayer as she rushed to meet what she was sure would be her doom.

But suddenly the ground began to shake and it roared with a terrible sound... it was almost more FEELING than sound as the vibrations from deep within the tortured earth were released. She stumbled, and so did the assassin. She quickly regained her footing and hurled Muerte at the assassin, but her aim was off because of the bucking ground. Her dagger embedded itself in the assassin's shoulder and began to vibrate, causing additional damage. The assassin simply grinned at her and she narrowed her eyes. "Come die with me, fiendish pig!" she spat at him.

The assassin advanced and Isobel slashed at him with her sword, slicing his arm. She felt something strike her in the knee -- she wasn't sure what it was (perhaps a dart, a dagger, or one of those eploding pellets) and she went down. She looked up in time to see the assassin looming over her, sword raised. She spat at him and rammed her sword into his thigh, then prepared to die.

At that moment something round and white collided with the man's head and he stumbled sideways, blood trickling from his ear.

"Take that ya pikin berk! Pick on someone your own size why don'tcha, ya chicken-hearted addle-cove!" Barry sneered at the assassin.

The assassin roared in fury, spitting out a stream of curses in Nerombian that Isobel couldn't understand, but Barry apparently could. "Yeah, yeah but your mama said I'm the best lover she ever had!" He cackled.

The assassin hurled a dagger at Barry, who bobbed out of the way just in time and the dagger stuck into the nearby dirt. The skull then hurled himself at the assassin's face and bit his nose off before he had a chance to react!!

Barry spit the nose out and gagged. "You know you could blow your nose once in a while!"

Isobel took the opportunity to get her good leg beneath her and lunged at the assassin, who was readying another dagger to throw at Barry. She stabbed upward, sending her sword into the man's belly and upward into his chest cavity, slicing his liver, a lung and his heart.

The assassin turned his eyes to her, a look of astonishment on his face, and crumpled to the ground, dead.

Isobel was bleeding heavily from her injured knee but she didn't think the bone was damaged. It must have been a dagger or dart, not an exploding pellet then. She got to one knee and looked at the dead assassin, a bleeding mass where his nose used to be. She reached over and picked up the nose from where Barry had dropped it and shoved it back on the man's face, deliberately upside down.

"Aww what'd ya do that for? I thought he looked better without it!" Barry complained.

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