Nei'an watched as the coins shot upwards. Klaw shrieked as many found their mark, puncturing wings and chest. This was not how it was supposed to go. Klaw protected me...
Klaw fell from the air, landing beyond Riathor.
Nei'an screamed in anger and frustration. was Klaw dead...
For the first time in a long, long time, Nei'an felt glad as dead bodies continued to pile up around him. Klaw survived, but for how much longer? Nei'an didn't have his truncheon...
Anger. Intense, boiling anger. Klaw had helped Nei'an, saved Nei'an multiple times, and not Klaw was suffering. Klaw, who Nei'an had vowed to protect. Klaw, who Nei'an had promised would live.
Klaw, who was dying on the ground, blood seeping into the earth like the roots of a felled tree, desperately thrashing for some tie to life.
Anger.
And, unsurprisingly, determination.
An infinite amount of it.
And pain became an abstract concept, completely unfeelable. Yes, usually he could feel some pain, not now.
Nei'an hardly felt the ground under his feet as he rushed the strange Mistborn. And he hardly cared as he threw his coat aside, lest the metal on it becomes his downfall, despite the weapon it bore.
He whipped out two vines from his belt, slinging them around like maces, and swung the pointed end towards Riathor's shocked face.