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Rattled, Five sneezes and spits, shaking off the Thin Mog’s grasp

"John--," Sam starts to say, but then his eyes widen, and he dives back into the cell just ahead of a jagged piece of dark-colored ice

Phiri Dun-Ra is back on her feet She reelsher tentacles With most of her backup dead, her eyes are suddenly wild and desperate

"Extraction!" she shrieks into an earpiece "I need extraction!"

Five ra her around the throat with two hands His skin is the speckled white and black of the tile floor Phiri lets a gout of fire loose in Five’s face, but it only singes his carapace and hten around her neck

It’s a relief when one of Phiri’s tentacles slides out ofPhiri lashes the oily appendage around Five’s neck and lifts hi the tile floor His skin loses its hardened coating--now it’s back to normal--and Phiri is able to squeeze his throat closed with her tentacle

Now’s it’s Five wheezing for breath

"Let’s see what you have for me, boy," Phiri says The sharpened end of her tentacle slaps across Five’s face, seeking out his e to attach herself to Five like she’s attached herself toabandoned on the floor One of the Mogs he dustedit

"Five!" I shout, trying to get his attention as he starts to turn blue I stretchout as far as I can and kick the blade towards hi across the floor

Before Phiri can plug into Five, he uses his telekinesis to yank his blade towards hiet the sense that’s not the first time Five’s practiced that ot experience in this area

With lee, Five stabs at Phiri Dun-Ra He hacks away at the tentacle around his neck until it’s nothing but pulp and he’s able to drop to the floor His skin takes on the hardened tile texture again, just in time to absorb a desperate burst of fire froht for theit until the tentacles attached to me drop loose and wither to ash Phiri screa Every tiet another chance to slash it apart I’d alotten how sadistic he is

"Just kill her, Five!" I yell, edging backwards across the floor and gri as I notice the size of the blood trail I leave behind