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Kentra knew from dozens of flights how the world moved slower at high altitude, and now, racing through the human streets on all four of her aegis’s wheels, she felt faster than she ever had before.
Which made her inability to catch the ragged creature all the more frustrating. It looked like the corpse of an oviraptor wrapped in cloth strips, a withered, fossilized mummy of corrupted flesh and bare bone. Yet somehow it was quick, not like she was, but like a spider, scuttling and unpredictable.
The creature was leaping from building to building, using the furls of wrapping around its wrists like grappling lines, swinging off of lamp posts and power lines.
She hurled her tail downward, shifting her weight to rise onto her feet. With a swipe of her arm she hurled the disk of force that served as her front wheel at the creature, watching it sail in a gentle curve.
The creature zigged when it should have zagged, and the disk connected with its neck. Kentra’s elation turned to horror as she watched the monster’s head fall from its body,
“Oh spike!” She had intended the strike to be a glancing blow. The creature’s body had barely bounced to a stop, however, when a raspy voice called out.
“That… hurt!” Kentra’s look of guilt and shock turned to one of horror as the watched the creature’s headless body rise from the alley floor. “Why did that hurt?”
The body groped and pawed at the ground until one bony claw caught the still-speaking skull and raised it into the air. It affixed the skull onto the end of the neck with a sickening crunch.
“I didn’t kill yah?” Kentra gasped.
“What? What kind of question is that? The living can be so- so rude!” The creature snapped its beak, scowling with its one good eye.
“So that means-.” Kentra grinned, as her gauntlet summoned another wheel into existence. “-I don’t have to be careful.”

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Kentra knew from dozens of flights how the world moved slower at high altitude, and now, racing through the human streets on all four of her aegis’s wheels, she felt faster than she ever had before.
Which made her inability to catch the ragged creature all the more frustrating. It looked like the corpse of an oviraptor wrapped in cloth strips, a withered, fossilized mummy of corrupted flesh and bare bone. Yet somehow it was quick, not like she was, but like a spider, scuttling and unpredictable.
The creature was leaping from building to building, using the furls of wrapping around its wrists like grappling lines, swinging off of lamp posts and power lines.
She hurled her tail downward, shifting her weight to rise onto her feet. With a swipe of her arm she hurled the disk of force that served as her front wheel at the creature, watching it sail in a gentle curve.
The creature zigged when it should have zagged, and the disk connected with its neck. Kentra’s elation turned to horror as she watched the monster’s head fall from its body,
“Oh spike!” She had intended the strike to be a glancing blow. The creature’s body had barely bounced to a stop, however, when a raspy voice called out.
“That… hurt!” Kentra’s look of guilt and shock turned to one of horror as the watched the creature’s headless body rise from the alley floor. “Why did that hurt?”
The body groped and pawed at the ground until one bony claw caught the still-speaking skull and raised it into the air. It affixed the skull onto the end of the neck with a sickening crunch.
“I didn’t kill yah?” Kentra gasped.
“What? What kind of question is that? The living can be so- so rude!” The creature snapped its beak, scowling with its one good eye.
“So that means-.” Kentra grinned, as her gauntlet summoned another wheel into existence. “-I don’t have to be careful.”