[You have received 8 points of Bludgeoning damage; after armor, no damage has been taken.]
"What the fuck?" I exclaimed.
It was a wake up call, in more ways than one. Not that someone was trying to kill me, that wasn't new. But for them to sneak up on me, that was new. Either they were good, or...
All of my animal senses. Or rather, none of them. I hadn't even improved my vision beyond human normal.
I'd set myself up to be bushwhacked or murdered, and not even realized what I was doing. He'd chosen to use a club, but if he'd had something more deadly, or intended to actually hurt me...
"The fuck," Andre Rouzet said, "is that you murdered my boy. In cold blood."
"I did not kill him in cold blood." I said.
"Liar!" he said, swinging the (I could see it now) baton. This one was meant to stave my head in.
Fortunately for me, my reflexes were...
