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A pair of guards are about to pounce on Rudy when I line them
up in my sights, shoot them dead. The Thuggee might appear terrifying and
indestructible as all hell in their black robes, hoods, masked faces, revealing
only black eyes filled with hate, but their skin and flesh are just as fragile
as anyone else’s. And when they drop dead, they look very dead and the frightening
exterior they once possessed only a few moments before now appear comic as
their bodies and limbs contort spastically under their own weight.
But they keep coming at us, which
is what I want as Tony and I cut them down one by one. Anjali acts as a kind of
Gunga Din, stealing weapons and ammo from the dead and feeding them to us as
fast as we can shoot them. It takes me a moment to relocate him, but when I
