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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spider_Jerusalem" data-source="post: 2385232" data-attributes="member: 5507">Ice, Luck and HonourChapter 9: Eye of the Blizzard“Stay down, filthy beast!”Milo feinted left then tumbled sideways, rolling tightly through the ettin’s legs. The ettin tried to follow, but collapsed to the ground with a grunt of surprise as it chased the elusive halfling through it’s own legs. Milo pounced forwards and stabbed the fallen ettin in the side. “Stay down, filthy beast!” cried Milo enthusiastically as Vampire bit deep, his veins suddenly flaring in ecstasy with the half-giant blood. The villagers around the ettin took heed from the daring halfling and swarmed onto the downed creature, their weapons hacking with fury into the roaring giant.The woman in red dashed forwards, her body slung low to the ground as she rushed at the second ettin. Thalin back-pedalled away from the powerful swings of the enraged giant, the two monstrous heads snarling in unison as the mage ducked under another swipe. The ettin stepped forwards with a thud, emitting a guttural growl from one head and a snorting laugh from the other. The ettin loomed over the mage, it's club ready to bring down a final crushing blow. Suddenly bellowing with pain, the ettin dropped to its knees as the woman in red rushed past, her sword tracing across the hamstrings of the giant. - - - - - - - - - -Turning away from the frail red robed woman and the questions that her presence had created, Torious bounded down the steps of the church as the cries of battle echoed from outside. “Please Merrick, you must not go out there,” breathed the old woman, her words almost a whisper, “you must be kept safe” Straightening herself up and reaching up with hands mottled by age, the woman in red drew the hood away from her face. Her eyes were hollow and her skin loose, as if her skull had shrunk and left the rest behind. Grey hair, what little of it remained, was pulled tightly back from her head. She smiled at Merrick. Her eyes softened as she saw the illusion of immortality that all humans of that age possess.“I can go where I want Errilinth, you said that yourself,” Merrick said with a hint of rebellion in his voice, “so I’m going”.Conceding defeat, Errilinth watched as Merrick turned and jogged to the town hall doorway. His silhouetted form paused for a moment to look back at the woman who had guided him thus far, then stepped out into the afternoon light.- - - - - - - - - -A shower of frozen shards thrashed into the crippled ettin from Thalin's outstretched hands. The giant's skin cracked and snapped away as frost crawled across it's chest. Undeterred, the ettin lurched forwards and smashed Thalin to the side with a heavy swing. The powerful blow lifted the mage off of his feet and sent Thalin crashing through a half collapsed wall and into the remains of a smouldering house. The ettin roared with a mix of triumph and pain as the roof gave way and collapsed onto the crumpled mage.</blockquote>

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