As the beasts charged towards him, Scar still didn't move. Not yet. He simply activated Accelerated Perception.
[-3 EP]
The world instantly plunged into stasis.
The guttural roars of the Bloodhounds distorted into a low hum before falling completely silent. The six beasts hung suspended in mid-air, entirely frozen. Scar could see the individual droplets of saliva floating from their fangs. He could see the microscopic shifts in their fur.
Scar exhaled slowly, stepping casually out of the kill box. He dashed toward the first suspended beast, summoned his dagger and, with a flick of his wrist, drew the razor-sharp edge across the creature's exposed jugular. He didn't even watch the blood begin to slowly bead. He pivoted, moving to the second beast, driving the blade upward into the soft cartilage beneath its jaw. Then he severed the spines of the next third and fourth beasts with flawless, surgical precision. He moved like a ghost walking through a museum of statues.
