Ragnar's fingers crushed inward and [Synchra] screamed, fractures webbing from every point of contact as the mutated dwarf king hauled Quinlan's entire body overhead in a single motion that cracked the air apart with its speed. The leg beneath that grip should have been powder, and the only reason it wasn't was the anima-grade armor absorbing what no bone could survive, every fracture in her plating a hit his femur didn't have to take.
They hung in open air together, the dwarf king's momentum from the launch barely spent, and the arm holding Quinlan's leg coiled backward like a siege engine being cranked to full draw.
"SURVIVE THIS!"
Quinlan's world inverted as the arc began and Ragnar swung him toward the earth like a siege hammer, every ounce of that dark-ritual-enhanced Strength pressed into a single downward strike meant to paint the hillside with whatever remained of the Primordial Villain after the stone finished catching him.
The wind tore at Quinlan's face, the ground rushing toward him at a speed that would have frozen most men's thoughts into a single white point of terror. However, his mind went somewhere else entirely, past the dwarf and the arm holding him to a place forty meters south and falling, where the bond pulsed with a dozen heartbeats that weren't his own, every single one of them fighting. He could feel Serika's knuckles splitting against blacksteel. Vex's curses burning through her tattoos. Blossom flickering between void and flesh with each strike. Ayame's silent fury aimed at the sister who had betrayed her.
he sent through the bond while the ground screamed closer, his body still mid-arc, still accelerating, still very much being used as a blunt instrument. The ground was fifteen meters away now, closing fast, and the memory of the last time surged through him unbidden, the shameful retreat Ragnar had forced on him, the taste of running when everything in his blood screamed to stay.
Primordial wrath and fury were blazing in Quinlan's chest as Black Fang's final image resurfaced.
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