A thug swings round a corner and gets his head slammed straight up against a door. Two flashes of gunpowder - one from behind the door, another from the hall running parallel to the staircase landing. Illya drops, rolls onto his back and fires at a man's knee once, at the falling man's face twice. (Overkill, definitely, but that's the idea.)
Four more men ahead — two coming down from the staircase, the other two on Illya's side of the door. The nearest one is disposed off with a clean snap of the neck, the other gets messy, what with a hidden boot knife and a shiv besides.
It nicks the sleeve of his jacket.
Bad move.
He has his watch under that sleeve.
Illya cracks the man's head against the wall in quiet, furious brutality, before pulling the door the whole way open. ]
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A thug swings round a corner and gets his head slammed straight up against a door. Two flashes of gunpowder - one from behind the door, another from the hall running parallel to the staircase landing. Illya drops, rolls onto his back and fires at a man's knee once, at the falling man's face twice. (Overkill, definitely, but that's the idea.)
Four more men ahead — two coming down from the staircase, the other two on Illya's side of the door. The nearest one is disposed off with a clean snap of the neck, the other gets messy, what with a hidden boot knife and a shiv besides.
It nicks the sleeve of his jacket.
Bad move.
He has his watch under that sleeve.
Illya cracks the man's head against the wall in quiet, furious brutality, before pulling the door the whole way open. ]