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He screamed as the one on the left swept
with its claws, the other on the right lunging
for her, as if it would tackle her to the snow.
Lysandra deflected the blow to the left with
her shield, sending the ilken sprawling, and
with a roar, slashed upward with her sword on
the right.
Ripping open the lunging ilken from navel
to sternum.
Black blood gushed, and the ilken shrieked,
loud enough to set Aedion’s ears ringing. But
it stumbled, falling into the snow, scrambling
back as it clutched its opened belly.
Aedion ran harder, now thirty feet away,
the space between them clear.
The ilken who’d gone sprawling on the left
was not done. Lysandra’s eye on the one
retreating, it lashed for her legs again.
Aedion threw the Sword of Orynth with
everything left in him as Lysandra twisted