The moment Myles saw it his heart dropped straight into despair. His mind stopped working properly. His thoughts scattered and crashed into each other as his eyes locked onto Nadine.
Her spear was gone—shattered into fragments—and the monster's bone blade was already descending toward her.
"No—!"
The scream came out of his chest but died in his throat.
At the last possible second, Nadine twisted and threw herself into a desperate roll.
The bone blade slashed through the space where her head had been an instant earlier, scraping along her shoulder and tearing cloth and flesh instead of splitting her in half. Nadine's blood was sprayed but she lived.
Then Victor was moving. He stepped in front of her without hesitation and planted his feet as his massive cleaver rose to meet the monster's strike.
CLANG!
The impact rang like a bell of doom. Victor's arms jolted violently as the bone blade crashed against his greenish cleaver. The force nearly drove him to one knee.
