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Oh no, you don’t

I charged the spider The legs stabbed at ed back and forth How the hell could it even seelanded in front of me; I ducked left and saw one of the black eyeballs swivel, following me It could look back and front at the sas Sarrat sliced into the insect’s abdo cut at ainst my back and side as I spun to avoid it Pain lancedcluuts, like clusters of fish bladders An acrid stench, sharp and fetid, like the odor of rotting fish, washed over round out "Hit it with s sliced atit You’ll be hit, too Let go of it"

"If I let go of it, it will tear me apart"

He couldn’t throw it either The insect’s center of round Curran didn’t have the leverage

The only word that wouldn’t cause him direct harm would freeze the spider-scorpion for four seconds I wouldn’t be able to do enough dae The moment they both came to, the insect would cut Curran to pieces

He couldn’t hold it forever

The leg directly aboveto pierce ht under the abdoht up Ichor drenched ain, ripping the slippery fish-bladder innards The guts spilled through the gashes, hanging like soe

Curran snarled The abdo on hi had cut ht up and thrust ic in ave it a push The blood streamed from my wound up my shoulder, up my arm, into the spider-insect, and turned solid A dozen thin spikes pierced the creature from within

The spider-scorpion screeched Felt that, did you? Have soed atto crushtheht and jumped to my feet

On the street the spider-scorpion dashed at Curran The meat chunk of its head that powered the left led Curran must’ve punched it when it reared

I ran at it

The spider thrust with its front leg Curran batted it aside The second leg stabbed, too fast The narrow blade of the front seg with his left hand and ss, jumped, and landed on the spider-scorpion’s back The creature flailed I stabbed Sarrat as deep as it would go and clung to it