"Fay, down there. Don't let them touch you. Pull their eyes." he commanded.
Radeon slid the bison down to the ground in a hard, controlled drop. Fay stepped off at once.
Qi rushed through her arm and flames erupted along her whip, bright and hungry.
The horrors noticed and surged toward her, true moths to flame, wings dragging as their mouths opened and closed in wet anticipation.
Fay ran. The movement technique Radeon had given her made her light as a ghost, feet skimming the earth.
Her body slipped through gaps that should not have existed. She pulled the swarm after her, dragging their hunger away from the fleeing miners.
Radeon fired as he watched. His bullets took fatal shots by any sane measure.
Antenna. Proboscis. Compound eyes. Chitin split. Blood sprayed in dark strings.
Not a single gu went down. Through his sight he saw the reason.
It was not normal regeneration. It was the existence of the moths themselves. Their flesh was woven with false immortality.
