Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24510587-20190418223601/@comment-5543592-20190505210154

Cade looked around, as if searching for an answer, and his eyes came to settle on Alrithos, as if the Titan was what he was looking for all along. "The Augur of Justice always does the right thing..." He thrummed.

Alrithos breathed out, causing Cade to stagger slightly, but he raised his shield against it. The Titan lowered his fistfuls of mortals to his sides and stared down at Cade, a rodent to Alrithos' cat.

"Mortal.  You have learned fear."  Alrithos purred, pleased, his large maw opening wide as he loomed over the Augur. "I will enjoy you first."

Cade puffed out his chest, trying to summon his past courage, even if it was only a facade. Perhaps it had always been.

"Not today, demon!" Cade said, and then raised his voice. "Not never!" With three lunging steps Cade advanced on Alrithos, insignifcant against the Titan, and the Daedra dropped down to swallow Cade whole. Cade swung, not his mace, but his shield-- it flew from his arm like a disk, twirling end over end towards Alrithos' head.

It missed.

The Daedra's jaws closed around the knight. The shield passed overhead, and it knocked Hircine's spear out of its place in Alrithos' scales. Both fell away, but as the shield flew off into the distance, the spear landed into Cade's waiting hands and he thrust it high.

The sound of the spear driving through the roof of Alrithos' mouth and into his brain was satisfyingly wet. The Titan's claws went slack, dropping those it had captured, and it fell to the earth with a thunderous crash.

Cade stood before it, still holding the spear that had penetrated Alrithos' cranium, still posed mid-strike, as if for a portrait.

He breathed out, assured, and said:  "Justice."