Turning, I shoved a blade into Rokor’s heart with one hand and pulled Rebecca into place behind me with the other. I now stood between Rebecca and the other attackers.
Pity. They were human.
Rebecca shouted as she pulled the hand from her neck and threw Rokor’s limb as far away as she could manage. “Ugh! Gross. Oh my god! You cut off his arm.”
I did not have time to comfort her. The human males were armed as well. Their weapons made of metal and stinking of oil. I knew they were ancient projectile firearms. Not a threat to me, but to Rebecca? Lethal.
Moving faster than I ever had in my life, my vision blurred as I sliced each man’s throat in turn. Rebecca wobbled from the loss of my arm around her, but I was back at her side before she could fall.
“What?” Her eyes grew round with shoc
