The pike almost hits. Atton grabs it before it does.
"That was good. You're making progress," he tosses his knife up into the air, using his now free hand to try to snatch the pike and, drawing on the Force to increase his strength, snap it in two.
"Go back to Nottingham, and tell people what happened here," Atton says, before cuffing him gently behind one ear. "You have a minute to get out of my sight, or I'll kill you."
He looks around. The horseman is dead, and the horse is breathing its last with painful, rattling breaths. Three steps take him over there; he draws his utility knife, bends down, and slits the horse's jugular.
You do not let horses suffer -- not any men, yours or those of the enemy, but those are all accounted for.
Teja straightens up. "Now, let us see where the pirate took the cart, and if the cart does contain gold; and if not, if any men are left alive on that cart that might know where the gold is."
That they would speak, Teja does not doubt for a moment.
Atton watches him until he's out of sight. "If we need him to find something, I'll catch him again." Atton shrugs. "But he's just a scared soldier. He'd probably gibber too much for us to hear what he was saying."
Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:26 pm (UTC)"That was good. You're making progress," he tosses his knife up into the air, using his now free hand to try to snatch the pike and, drawing on the Force to increase his strength, snap it in two.
Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:30 pm (UTC)He swings his axe again and sinks it deep into the man's shoulder, half hewing off the head, half cleaving the chest open.
He must step on the corpse to jerk his axe free; and as it comes loose, the man's last lifeblood spurts over Teja's shoes, and the hem of his cloak.
"Any others?" he says. "Will you yet tame that one, Atton? You are teaching him well."
Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:36 pm (UTC)"I.i.i yield!!"
Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:41 pm (UTC)Teja gets a brief look up and down. "Messy kill?"
Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:46 pm (UTC)He looks around. The horseman is dead, and the horse is breathing its last with painful, rattling breaths. Three steps take him over there; he draws his utility knife, bends down, and slits the horse's jugular.
You do not let horses suffer -- not any men, yours or those of the enemy, but those are all accounted for.
Teja straightens up. "Now, let us see where the pirate took the cart, and if the cart does contain gold; and if not, if any men are left alive on that cart that might know where the gold is."
That they would speak, Teja does not doubt for a moment.
"Or we might recapture your pikeman for that."
Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:47 pm (UTC)Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:50 pm (UTC)"If we need him to find something, I'll catch him again." Atton shrugs. "But he's just a scared soldier. He'd probably gibber too much for us to hear what he was saying."