02-16-2009, 12:58 PM
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The noise was all but deafening now. He heard nothing outside of his head; not the woman’s voice, not the sound of the wind, not the soft and maddening silence that had enveloped the world around them. It was growing remarkably cold; except Gabriel did not feel this, for his mind was on fire. A monstrous thing he had become, all flesh and bone, unaware and yet entirely perceptive in this mechanical fashion of the goal at hand.
Iskata’s teeth closed around his thick neck fur, but she could not maintain her hold. Gabriel continued to strike, continued to move his feet and cut her belly to ribbons. Then, as surely as a viper, he struck out for her throat.
The noise was all but deafening now. He heard nothing outside of his head; not the woman’s voice, not the sound of the wind, not the soft and maddening silence that had enveloped the world around them. It was growing remarkably cold; except Gabriel did not feel this, for his mind was on fire. A monstrous thing he had become, all flesh and bone, unaware and yet entirely perceptive in this mechanical fashion of the goal at hand.
Iskata’s teeth closed around his thick neck fur, but she could not maintain her hold. Gabriel continued to strike, continued to move his feet and cut her belly to ribbons. Then, as surely as a viper, he struck out for her throat.