10-05-2014, 01:18 PM
He watched the two new thugs carefully, listened to the tense exchange, felt through his armour the sudden chill that took the air around Kuzan, and the Dragonslayer's grip upon his spear tightened all the while. It would be just his luck that the first test fate had arranged for him after his fall would be to be set upon by common thieves with an unusually charismatic frontman. He had no intention of letting himself be played for a fool.
"Unprepared? Do I look unprepared to run you and your henchmen through where you stand for this insolence?" With an ugly scowl that mimicked the expression upon his helm, the knight took a low crouch, his spear clutched in both hands. For a split second, deep yellow sparks of lightning danced across his charred armour - then he jumped. Clear out of the pit, to somersault over the three robbers and land in a predatory crouch behind them. The two burly thugs flanking the cloaked man turned quickly, drawing short swords. Ornstein towered to his feet, spinning the great spear around his body in a deft flourish that kept the robbers firmly out of reach, and withdrew into a low stance with the weapon pointed straight at the cloaked man, braced beneath the pit of the knight's arm like a cavalier's lance. "On the contrary, I think it's the three of you who are unprepared."
"Unprepared? Do I look unprepared to run you and your henchmen through where you stand for this insolence?" With an ugly scowl that mimicked the expression upon his helm, the knight took a low crouch, his spear clutched in both hands. For a split second, deep yellow sparks of lightning danced across his charred armour - then he jumped. Clear out of the pit, to somersault over the three robbers and land in a predatory crouch behind them. The two burly thugs flanking the cloaked man turned quickly, drawing short swords. Ornstein towered to his feet, spinning the great spear around his body in a deft flourish that kept the robbers firmly out of reach, and withdrew into a low stance with the weapon pointed straight at the cloaked man, braced beneath the pit of the knight's arm like a cavalier's lance. "On the contrary, I think it's the three of you who are unprepared."