[When Dokja cuts his arrow out of the air, Liem has to suppress a small noise of disgust. Of course he would manage something like that, with no preparation, at almost point-blank range. He didn’t even have the decency to make it look difficult.
This all passes through his mind in a lightning flash of annoyance—and by the time the flicker of it subsides, Dokja is following after him and oh merciful gods he’s right there. Liem lunges back from the arc of that sword, but there’s nothing he can do to escape its reach now that he’s left without his dimensional hop, not when the other man is able to close with him so quickly. With the first swing of that long blade he knows that he’s going to end up killed by it sooner rather than later.
Which is why Ciel’s intervention is so unbelievably timely. He spares only a moment’s glance for her as she stops the sword mid-swing and conjures a trio of her own blades (unsettling things that he’s glad aren’t pointed in his direction). Lingering here would only put him in her way, so he doesn’t need her acknowledgement or her instruction to get clear. Liem disengages from the tangled pair and darts across the square to do what he’s been trying to accomplish since he first got here.
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This all passes through his mind in a lightning flash of annoyance—and by the time the flicker of it subsides, Dokja is following after him and oh merciful gods he’s right there. Liem lunges back from the arc of that sword, but there’s nothing he can do to escape its reach now that he’s left without his dimensional hop, not when the other man is able to close with him so quickly. With the first swing of that long blade he knows that he’s going to end up killed by it sooner rather than later.
Which is why Ciel’s intervention is so unbelievably timely. He spares only a moment’s glance for her as she stops the sword mid-swing and conjures a trio of her own blades (unsettling things that he’s glad aren’t pointed in his direction). Lingering here would only put him in her way, so he doesn’t need her acknowledgement or her instruction to get clear. Liem disengages from the tangled pair and darts across the square to do what he’s been trying to accomplish since he first got here.
He goes to find a good vantage to shoot from.]