Swiftcurrent Creek but anything is preferable to the pain

teeth, slicing through the air a hairsbreadth from merrick's remaining eyelid. he laughed loudly, riotously, and allowed aventus to rise, backing and backing, circling to the left and to the right, steps a churn of sneaking movements until he arced in another violent snap toward his son.
this time, this time he hoped that aventus would be ready, for in the second he meant not to show mercy as he had the first, and this showed in the hotburn of his last eye.