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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4592809" data-attributes="member: 3285">I Know Thee Brother: Part 1b – Rumblings of InsurrectionThe disciplined Knights of Tralia stepped in to deal with the disorganized canton.  Halberds came crashing down on shields emblazoned with the white and red shields of the knights.  Kham drew Talon and Coombs’ dagger.  Hayden hefted a Tralian hammer.  “Think you can just shoot me and be done with it?” snarled Hayden.  “I’m not going to die like a dog in the street; if you want to put me down, you’ll have to do it with your own two hands!”With both hands, Hayden swung the hammer in an arc over his head.  Kham blocked it with scimitar and dagger but the blow rattled his teeth.  His lenses fell from his nose, revealing the whites of the val’s eyes.“Fine, you want to play like a val?” Kham skipped backwards at another swing.  “Let’s play.”Kham focused.  A deep thrumming radiated from him and the world went white.  He could see shapes moving in blurred, stuttering steps, perceiving where they were going before they got there.  But this time there was something different.Hayden looked exactly the same. He was not silhouetted in white like the others, but rather crystal clear.  He had shifted into the same form of psychic perception that Kham was still learning to use.  And he was just a normal human.“Your mind tricks won’t work on me.”  Hayden dodged left and right, shoving the head of the hammer into Kham’s chest.  He reeled backwards in surprise, the wind knocked out of him. “I can move as fast as you can!”To Vlad, Kham and Hayden had become a blur, moving in perfect locked step.  They slammed together and then Kham was down on the ground.“Don’t hurt him!” shouted Vlad, struggling to stop Milandisians from killing other Milandisians.  “He’s sick!” When the two combatants separated, many of the Milandisian cantons moaned and collapsed.  Sores erupted on their skin. The Knights stopped struggling, staring in surprise at the formerly combative citizens.  Then a knight fell to his knees.The tanner loomed over Kham.  He lifted the hammer overhead with scabrous arms. “You’re fast,” said Kham.  “But can you dodge a bullet?”In a flash, Kham’s pistols were out.  He fired two resounding shots. The hammer spun out of the tanner’s hands and landed just shy of Kham’s head.  Undeterred, Hayden laced his fingers together for another blow…There was a resounding crack as ss’ressen tail met human jaw.  Hayden collapsed to the ground, unconscious.  Crouched, with tail still extended, was Redmantle, the fiery-red ss’ressen.Kham hopped to his feet. “Not bad,” he said grudgingly.  “For a lizard.”“Not bad yourssself,” the ss’ressen said with a wink.  “The Sssissstersss of Our Lady’sss Mercy have sssent word that they have the meansss to cure the plague.  We are taking the mossst ill to be healed. You ssshould come with usss.”“Let’s get Sebastian and get out of here,” said Vlad.Kham dusted himself off.  “You’re in an awful rush.”Vlad didn’t say anything.  He just pulled up one sleeve of his tunic.His arm was covered in sores.</blockquote>

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