Vina says: "First one's name's Carl Jenks--the Shadow Thief. The tattooed fellow can do something similar with his tats--that's Circe. We'd best plug our ears."
She does so. And then, moving very quickly, smashes the plate glass windows and grabs Shadow Thief, shooting an arrow off over his head as she does so. A really bright one.
The Shadow-Thief flinches as the flare arrow sizzles over his head. He wobbles, too, as his shadow is rapidly deflected away from the moving light source.
And he sways directly into Vina's path! She unloads a mighty mace-swing which contacts weakly, as though hammering a hanging cobweb, but the Shadow-Thief reels back. Apparently some of the power of the blow transferred to his shadowy form, and he wobbles as though drunk.
But then he rallies, waving his hands at Vina and casting a shadow of a wolf's head, which bites!
Vina finds her wings pinned in the wolf's jaws. The Shadow-Thief, smirking, balls his other hand into a huge shadowy fist ... .
Green light washes the windows from whatever Roy is doing outside. There's yowling and screeching and a grinding noise like a bulldozer ... but the green light reduces the Shadow-Thief's fist to a little bump on the jaw.
The wings are still pinned, though. If they were real wings and not mechanical, this would really hurt!
Very quickly, Vina pulls out her heavy-duty cop light from her equipment belt and shines it full on Shadow-Thief, stealing his thunder--er, shadows.
ReplyDeleteShe then goes through what she knows from the Hawks about how to apprehend this extremely slippery guy.
He can return to this dimension at will by twisting his dimensiometer. So usually the Hawks got him in an untenable situation (captured his buddy, explained that they knew where his loot was, etc.) and got him to come on out voluntarily. A little like a perp locked in a closet.
ReplyDeleteBut it's also possible to enter the shadow dimension and fight him in there, although it's pitch black.