“Me first?” Myrtle laughed out loud, showing her toothless gums to any who cared to see. “Met my old friend Thaddeus, eh?” A knife appeared in her hand and she hurled herself at Alyson, knifepoint first.
Stepping aside, Alyson threw hot soup into Myrtle"s face with one hand, pulled her turquoise knife with the other, spun and sank it to the hilt in Myrtle"s side. She pulled the pot onto Myrtle, who screamed, and leaped for the door, dropped and rolled under the sword s***h, kicked the lookout"s feet from under him and thrust her knife into his groin. He fell on top of her, convulsing with each of her stabs until he stopped convulsing and she realized he was dead.
After pushing him off her, she flew out the door. She was covered in blood. Loosening her sash, she took out her diamond and f
