For they’d targeted Ank and Luna just as surely as they’d crashed the defenses, and it was at precisely that instant, the instant he’d had this realization, that matters became a thousand times worse: for the Bandana Man had arrived upon his mottled red and black steed.
And before he’d even been able to react the dark paladin had dismounted and sent the allosaur forward, at which instant it bound directly for him and Williams held his trigger down—but was thwarted by the beast’s winding movements and dizzying speed, so that he could only dive for cover as it trampled the sandbagged perimeter and continued on toward Ank and Luna.
And then he was facing off with the Bandana Man even as the battle changed direction—divining, in the same way he had divined almost everything since that faithf
