He came in low and put everything into the joint Raymond's horse had opened.
[KARGAN — HP: 25,940 → 21,400]
The leg folded halfway and Kargan went down onto it and then tore his axe out of the horse and swung backhanded through the space where Finn had been standing, and Finn had to abandon the follow-up and throw himself flat to keep his head.
The Orc Chief got up.
He was breathing differently now, deep and ragged through his mouth, and he put almost all of his weight onto the good leg when he moved, and every swing after that came harder than the one before it rather than softer.
The smaller orcs that had been hanging back at the edges came in.
Four of them went for James and Maeve, because the ones at the back of a formation always know where the caster is. Two more planted themselves at their War-Chief's damaged side, which was more intelligent than James had expected and considerably more inconvenient.
