[ Trying to keep James out of harm's way will ultimately be a distraction in the end. He can tell it isn't the other man's time to die, and he'd hate to have something happen to disrupt that timeline.
The creature tenses as if to pounce, but Ivan moves first, and quickly, to close the gap. He's fast, but so is the monster. It's also quite apparent that Ivan clearly does not give a damn about whether or not he gets hurt. In the course of their quick and brutal dance, he simply leave himself open to attack in order to get an attack off himself. He takes the thing's head off eventually, but not before he takes a couple of thorny vines right through the shoulder. They're still there even as the monster drops dead. ]
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[ Trying to keep James out of harm's way will ultimately be a distraction in the end. He can tell it isn't the other man's time to die, and he'd hate to have something happen to disrupt that timeline.
The creature tenses as if to pounce, but Ivan moves first, and quickly, to close the gap. He's fast, but so is the monster. It's also quite apparent that Ivan clearly does not give a damn about whether or not he gets hurt. In the course of their quick and brutal dance, he simply leave himself open to attack in order to get an attack off himself. He takes the thing's head off eventually, but not before he takes a couple of thorny vines right through the shoulder. They're still there even as the monster drops dead. ]