Sky Masterton jabs and stabs at the Fade who is trying to wear Janet down. The Fade bears down on Janet, trying to ignore Sky.
But then Sky appears to trip, and the Fade goes for him, trying to stab Sky in the neck. At the exact instant he solidifies to make contact, Sky vanishes and appears a few feet away, so that his knife, once lying on the ground, is now deep inside the Fade's chest.
The Fade hisses in fine agony and rolls over, taking Sky's knife with him. He blurs, attempting to leave the knife behind, but the knife is a part of him now, as much as his heart or brain, and both of them, knife and man, fall into the asphalt and slowly sink from sight, kicking uselessly.
Janet solidifies at last, unable to hold her gray state a single moment longer. Sky's magic is similarly exhausted. Plus he's lost a pretty sweet flick-knife.
Michael Bor, guarding the unconscious Christine Tane, crouches yet behind the badly damaged Grimnoir car. He thinks he's pretty low on bullets.
No living enemies are left outside.
Kaze jumps to catch the fire escape with a long trident-shaped knife. She uses it as a hook to pull herself up, then swings a weighted cord to the next floor up. Cord and trident together allow her to climb hand over hand back up to the third floor, where a faint scream can now be heard.
Belle looks around for any wounded (ie injured but not entirely dead. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think Belle's upstairs with Sonny-boy, Richter, and the tattooed man. The only other person up here is Shara, and she looks not just dead, but well past dead.
ReplyDeleteSky, panting, lying on his back, says aloud, "I offered fifty-fifty on my chances. Who took that bet? Pay up!"
ReplyDeleteHe get unsteadily to his feet and goes to look at Christine Tane. "Medic! Hey, medic!"
If he hears the screaming and shooting from indoors at that point, he dons both his pairs of brass knuckles over his guns and runs in through the nearest door or leaps in through window. If the lower ladder fell when Kaze went up the fire escape, he uses that.
Janet sits back against the car, gasping and exhausted. "Thank you Sky," she says before he runs off, then she takes a look at Tane to see if there's anything she can do.
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