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It was the distraction I needed.
I seized both his arms.
His natural reaction was to retract his arms back. I came with them, and took each step carefully as I hopped back to him under the powerful force of his retracing arms. I leaped and thrust out my heel, striking him across the chin.
He made a dull “D’uh!” noise as he took the blow. His mouth sagged on one side. I thought his jaw was broken.
But that didn’t mean I was going to take pity on him.
He was in my way.
I slammed the creature in the jaw again.
He spun slowly on the spot, seeing stars now. His arms hung long and lifeless at his sides and dragged along the floor.
I balled up my fist and delivered another crushing blow to his chin. It snapped off, the bone and blood visible underneath.
The crowd gasped. A couple were sick.
The creature’s eyes rolled into the back of his head. He stumbled and landed, head first, in the dirt.
I peered up at the observation window.
Hold on, Ivy, I thought. I’m coming. I’m coming very soon.
I didn’t know when exactly, and I didn’t know how, but I would reach her.
Somehow.
23
IVY
I had never been into gore and I couldn’t bear to watch the alien fall at Kren’s feet. It was bloody and it was disgusting. Kren did it to stay alive and be with me. And so, I watched.
The Supervisor growled at the back of his throat and marched over to the control desk. He pressed a button on the console.
“Send in the best,” he said.
“We’re supposed to send in increasingly harder opponents, sir,” the voice on the other end said. “The rules say—”
“I don’t give a damn about the rules!” the Supervisor said, slamming a fist on the console. “Start sending in the best or you’ll be next!”
“Yes, sir.”
The Supervisor turned to face me with a grin on his face. He rubbed his hands together.
“There. That should make things more interesting.”
“You’re cheating. You changed the rules!”
“When you’re in charge of the rules, you’re a fool if you don’t take advantage of them.”
The Supervisor was many things, but he wasn’t stupid. Still, Kren deserved to know the rules had changed.
“So, tell him you’ve changed the rules,” I said. “He deserves that much.”
“He’s a prisoner under my control. He deserves whatever I decide to give him. Now—”
