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“Nice play-acting,” he said. “I guess I’ve finally met someone who stays cool.”
He lurched at me. His blade was so sharp it made a tearing sound as it passed through the air. I backed away and shot forward only when I could land a jab in his face. He was skilled but he wasn’t fast.
He struck in an attempt to skewer me. I rolled to one side and scooped up a box. I raised it as the blade darted forward and sliced through the box on both sides. The bottom fell out and children’s toys splashed across the floor. I twisted the box, removing the blade from Klang’s hand, and kicked out.
Klang was ready for it and swung with a second blade I didn’t know he had. It sliced my thigh. His second blow came in to issue permanent damage but I blocked his arm and together we went down.
I turned my head to one side as he added his weight to his attacking arm. The blade stabbed the floorboard, the point driving hard into the damp wood.
I grabbed the arm that held the buried knife and pulled on it so he couldn’t work it free.
He reached with his other hand for another blade.
I gripped that arm with my offhand.
Our arms shook as our muscles struggled for supremacy.
My superior Titan strength against his superior position. He was on top of me.
Ordinarily, I would have put money on me but that was without taking my shoulder injury into account.
I could feel the stitches tearing loose. My blood seeped from the wound and wet my suit.
Klang ground his teeth in what was meant to be a grin.
He knew he was going to win.
He would kill me.
And Maddy would be next.
With the scent of my blood in the trackers’ nostrils, I wasn’t convinced they could bring themselves to wait until they reached the shuttlecraft. They would kill her right here.
And I could do nothing to stop them.
The blade at his waist slipped free of its scabbard.
It was only a matter of time now.
“Your honor is mine!” Klang said as he drew the blade back.
I let him bring his blade down. I twisted his wrist, snapping it. The blade sliced into my chest.
I was prepared for it.
As he came down, I pulled my head back and smashed him in the face.
He started back, shocked. But he still had the killer instinct in him and wasn’t about to give up now.
He brought the blade down for a second time.
I smashed my head into his grill again.
And again.
And again.
This time, his eyes rolled back in his head. He was done.
